tonsa

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Unknown.[1] (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “cf. tōnsillae”)

Noun

tōnsa f (genitive tōnsae); first declension (poetic, chiefly in the plural)

  1. oars; an oar [first attested in Ennius][1]
    Synonym: rēmus
    • 239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius, Annales 7.245:
      ‘Poste recumbite vestraque pectora pellite tonsis.’
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    • 239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius, Annales 7.246:
      Pone petunt, exim referunt ad pectora tonsas.
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    • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 2.553–554:
      disiactare solet magnum mare transtra cavernas
      antemnas prorem malos tonsasque natantis, […]
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    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 7.27–28:
      ventī posuēre omnīsque repente resēdit
      flātus, et in lentō luctantur marmore tonsae.
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    • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Agamemnon 442–443:
      Ut aura plenos fortior tendit sinus,
      posuere tonsas, […]
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    • 61 CE – 65 CE, Lucanus, Pharsalia 3.527–528:
      impulsae tonsis tremuere carinae,
      Crebraque sublimes convellunt verbera puppes.
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    • c. 90 CE, Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.369–370:
      Tum valida Clymenus percusso pectore tonsa
      frater et Iphiclus puppem trahit, […]
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    • c. 83 CE – 96 CE, Silius Italicus, Punica 11.489–490:
      adductis percussa ad pectora tonsis
      centeno fractus spumabat uerbere pontus.
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Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative tōnsa tōnsae
genitive tōnsae tōnsārum
dative tōnsae tōnsīs
accusative tōnsam tōnsās
ablative tōnsā tōnsīs
vocative tōnsa tōnsae
Derived terms

Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Participle

    tōnsa

    1. inflection of tōnsus:
      1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
      2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

    Participle

    tōnsā

    1. ablative feminine singular of tōnsus

    References

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “tōnsa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 623

    Further reading

    • “tonsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “tonsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “tonsa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • "tonsa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “tonsa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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