tonsio

Latin

Etymology

From tondeō +‎ -tiō.

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.