tonsorius

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-?

Proto-Indo-European *tend-der.

Proto-Italic *tondeō

Latin tondeō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -tōrius

Latin tōnsōrius

From tondeō (“cut, shear”) + -tōrius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tõːˈsoː.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [tonˈsɔː.ri.us]

Adjective

tōnsōrius (feminine tōnsōria, neuter tōnsōrium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) shaving
2. (relational) barber

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	tōnsōrius	tōnsōria	tōnsōrium		tōnsōriī	tōnsōriae	tōnsōria
genitive	tōnsōriī	tōnsōriae	tōnsōriī		tōnsōriōrum	tōnsōriārum	tōnsōriōrum
dative	tōnsōriō	tōnsōriae	tōnsōriō		tōnsōriīs
accusative	tōnsōrium	tōnsōriam	tōnsōrium		tōnsōriōs	tōnsōriās	tōnsōria
ablative	tōnsōriō	tōnsōriā	tōnsōriō		tōnsōriīs
vocative	tōnsōrie	tōnsōria	tōnsōrium		tōnsōriī	tōnsōriae	tōnsōria

Descendants

• Padanian:
  • Emilian: tisura
  • Ligurian: tisoîa, tesueîa
  • Lombard: tesoira
  • Piedmontese: tisòira, tësòira
  • Romagnol: tusur
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: tixera ⇒ estixera

    Belsetán: tisera ⇒ estisera

  • Benasqués: ⇒ estisera
  • Catalan: tisora
  • Occitan:

    Auvergnat: tesuira ⇒ estesuira

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: tisoria
  • Galician: tesoira, tesoura, tixoira
  • Portuguese: tesoura, tesoira, tejoura, tisoira, tijoira
  • Spanish: tijera
    • → Asturian: tixera

References

• “tonsorius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tonsorius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tonsorius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.