# tonsura
## French
### Pronunciation

* Homophones: tonsuras, tonsurât

### Verb

tonsura
* third-person singular past historic of tonsurer

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tonˈsuɾa/ [t̪onˈs̺u.ɾɐ]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Hyphenation: ton‧su‧ra

### Noun

tonsura f (uncountable)
* tonsure
    Synonym: coroa

## Italian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

tonsura f (plural tonsure)
* tonsure

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

tonsura
* inflection of tonsurare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Related terms

* tondere
* tosare

### Anagrams

* Saturno, saturno, snaturo, snaturò, sturano

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /tonˈsuː.ra/, [t̪õːˈs̠uːrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /tonˈsu.ra/, [t̪onˈsuːrä]

### Noun

tōnsūra f (genitive tōnsūrae); first declension
* haircut
* pruning, clipping, trimming
* shearing

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* tondeō
* tōnsilis
* tōnsiō
* tōnsor
* tōnsōrius
* tōnstrīcula
* tōnstrīna
* tōnstrīnum
* tōnstrix
* tōnsus

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: tonsura
* → English: tonsure
* → French: tonsure
* → Friulian: tonsure
* → Galician: tonsura
* → Italian: tonsura
* → Occitan: tonsura
* → Polish: tonsura
* → Romanian: tunsură
* → Russian: тонзура (tonzura)
* → Spanish: tonsura

### References

* “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.

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tōnsūra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɔnˈsu.ra/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ura
* Syllabification: ton‧su‧ra

### Noun

tonsura f
* tonsure

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tonˈsuɾa/ [t̪õnˈsu.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Syllabification: ton‧su‧ra

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

tonsura f (plural tonsuras)
* tonsure

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tonsura
* inflection of tonsurar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “tonsura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tonsura.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /tonˈsuɾa/ [t̪on̪ˈsuː.ɾɐ]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Syllabification: ton‧su‧ra

### Noun

tonsura (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜈ᜔ᜐᜓᜇ)
* tonsure
    Synonyms: panot, satsat, anit
* act of shaving the crown of the head into a tonsure
    Synonym: pag-anit

### Anagrams

* Saturno