tonsa

Latin

Pronunciation

• tōnsa:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtõː.sa]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɔn.sa]
• tōnsā:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtõː.saː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɔn.sa]

Etymology 1

Uncertain, perhaps from tundō. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tōnsa f (genitive tōnsae); first declension (poetic)

1. (chiefly plural) an oar

   Synonym: rēmus

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

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

• “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 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)
• “tonsa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tonsa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers