tonsura

• Homophones: tonsuras, tonsurât

tonsura

1. third-person singular past historic of tonsurer

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

tonsura f (uncountable)

1. tonsure

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

tonsura f (plural tonsure)

1. tonsure

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tonsura

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

• tondere
• tosare

• Saturno, saturno, snaturo, snaturò, sturano

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

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

tōnsūra f (genitive tōnsūrae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• “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.

Borrowed from Latin tōnsūra.

• IPA^(key): /tɔnˈsu.ra/

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

tonsura f

1. tonsure

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

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

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

tonsura f (plural tonsuras)

1. tonsure

tonsura

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

• “tonsura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Spanish tonsura.

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

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