tonsio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-?

Proto-Indo-European *tend-der.

Proto-Italic *tondeō

Latin tondeō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin tōnsiō

From tondeō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtõː.si.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɔn.si.o]

Noun

tōnsiō f (genitive tōnsiōnis); third declension (Late Latin)

1. shearing

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tōnsiō	tōnsiōnēs
genitive	tōnsiōnis	tōnsiōnum
dative	tōnsiōnī	tōnsiōnibus
accusative	tōnsiōnem	tōnsiōnēs
ablative	tōnsiōne	tōnsiōnibus
vocative	tōnsiō	tōnsiōnēs

Related terms

• tondeō
• tōnsus

Descendants

• French: toison
  • → Spanish: toisón
• Italian: tosone
• Portuguese: tosão

References

• “tonsio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tonsio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.