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• 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”).

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

tonsura f (uncountable)

1. tonsure
   Synonym: coroa

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

• tosura (inherited, archaic, dialectal)

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 Latin) IPA(key): [tõːˈsuː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tonˈsuː.ra]

tōnsūra f (genitive tōnsūrae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• tondeō

• tōnsilis

• tōnsiō

• tōnsor

• tōnsōrius

• tōnstrīcula

• tōnstrīna

• tōnstrīnum

• tōnstrix

• tōnsus

• Italo-Romance:

  • Italian: tosura

• → Catalan: tonsura

• → Friulian: tonsure

• → Galician: tonsura

• → Hungarian: tonzúra

• → Italian: tonsura

• → Occitan: tonsura

• → Old French: tonsure (see there for further descendants)

• → Polish: tonsura

• → Romanian: tunsură

• → Russian: тонзу́ра (tonzúra)

• → Serbo-Croatian: tonzúra / тонзу́ра

• → Spanish: tonsura

• “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, 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.

Learned borrowing from Latin tōnsūra.

• IPA(key): /tɔnˈsu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Syllabification: ton‧su‧ra

tonsura f

1. tonsure

• “tonsura”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “tonsura”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish)
• 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Spanish tonsura.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /tonˈsuɾa/ [t̪on̪ˈsuː.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

• Saturno