tonsura

See also: tonsurá

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: tonsuras, tonsurât

Verb

tonsura

1. third-person singular past historic of tonsurer

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tonsūra (“a clipping, trimming”), from tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tonˈsuɾa/ [t̪onˈs̺u.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Hyphenation: ton‧su‧ra

Noun

tonsura f (uncountable)

1. tonsure

   Synonym: coroa

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tōnsūra (“a clipping, trimming”), from tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”). See tosare.

Noun

tonsura f (plural tonsure)

1. tonsure

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tonsura

1. inflection of tonsurare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Related terms

• tondere
• tosare

Anagrams

• Saturno, saturno, snaturo, snaturò, sturano

Latin

Etymology

From tondeō ‎ -tūra with the regular change -dt- → -ss- → -s-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tonˈsuː.ra/, [t̪õːˈs̠uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tonˈsu.ra/, [t̪onˈsuːrä]

Noun

tōnsūra f (genitive tōnsūrae); first declension

1. haircut
2. pruning, clipping, trimming
3. shearing

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tōnsūra	tōnsūrae
genitive	tōnsūrae	tōnsūrārum
dative	tōnsūrae	tōnsūrīs
accusative	tōnsūram	tōnsūrās
ablative	tōnsūrā	tōnsūrīs
vocative	tōnsūra	tōnsūrae

Related terms

• tondeō
• tōnsilis
• tōnsiō
• tōnsor
• tōnsōrius
• tōnstrīcula
• tōnstrīna
• tōnstrīnum
• tōnstrix
• tōnsus

Descendants

• → Catalan: tonsura
• → English: tonsure
• → French: tonsure
• → Friulian: tonsure
• → Galician: tonsura
• → Italian: tonsura
• → Occitan: tonsura
• → Polish: tonsura
• → Romanian: tunsură
• → Russian: тонзура (tonzura)
• → Spanish: tonsura

References

• “tonsura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tonsura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tonsura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tonsura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tōnsūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔnˈsu.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Syllabification: ton‧su‧ra

Noun

tonsura f

1. tonsure

Declension

Declension of tonsura

	singular	plural
nominative	tonsura	tonsury
genitive	tonsury	tonsur
dative	tonsurze	tonsurom
accusative	tonsurę	tonsury
instrumental	tonsurą	tonsurami
locative	tonsurze	tonsurach
vocative	tonsuro	tonsury

Further reading

• tonsura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tonsura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tonˈsuɾa/ [t̪õnˈsu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: ton‧su‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tōnsūra (“a clipping, trimming”), from tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”).

Noun

tonsura f (plural tonsuras)

1. tonsure

Etymology 2

Verb

tonsura

1. inflection of tonsurar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “tonsura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tonsura.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tonˈsuɾa/ [t̪on̪ˈsuː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: ton‧su‧ra

Noun

tonsura (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜈ᜔ᜐᜓᜇ)

1. tonsure

   Synonyms: panot, satsat, anit

2. act of shaving the crown of the head into a tonsure

   Synonym: pag-anit

Anagrams

• Saturno