tonsure

tonsure

See also: tonsuré

English

Medieval Roman Catholic monk with tonsure.

Etymology

From Middle English tonsure, from Anglo-Norman and Old French tonsure, from Latin tonsūra (“a clipping, trimming”), from tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒn.ʃə(ɹ)/

• Audio (UK)

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Verb

tonsure (third-person singular simple present tonsures, present participle tonsuring, simple past and past participle tonsured)

1. (Christianity, Buddhism) To shave the crown of the head as a sign of humility and religious vocation.

Translations

shave the crown of the head

Catalan: tonsurar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 削髮／削发 (zh) (xuēfà), 剃度 (zh) (tìdù) Finnish: tehdä tonsuuri French: tonsurer (fr) Icelandic: krúnuraka Spanish: tonsurar (es)

Noun

tonsure (plural tonsures)

1. A ritual shaving of this kind.
2. The bald patch resulting from being tonsured.

Translations

ritual shaving of this kind

Chinese: Mandarin: 削髮／削发 (zh) (xuēfà), 剃度 (zh) (tìdù) Finnish: tonsuuri (fi) Icelandic: krúnurakstur m Japanese: 剃度 (ja) (ていど, teido) Spanish: tonsura (es) f

bald patch resulting from being tonsured

Bulgarian: тонзура f (tonzura) Catalan: tonsura (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 削髮／削发 (zh) (xuēfà), 剃度 (zh) (tìdù) Esperanto: tonsuro Finnish: tonsuuri (fi) French: tonsure (fr) f German: Tonsur (de) f Hungarian: tonzúra Icelandic: krúna f Middle English: coroune Polish: tonsura (pl) f Russian: тонзу́ра (ru) f (tonzúra) Spanish: tonsura (es) f Swedish: tonsur (sv) c Tagalog: panot (tl)

Anagrams

• nutrose, tenours

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French

Etymology

From Old French tonsure, borrowed from Latin tonsūra (“a clipping, trimming”), from tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃.syʁ/

• Audio (CAN)

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Noun

tonsure f (plural tonsures)

1. tonsure

Related terms

• tondre

Verb

tonsure

1. inflection of tonsurer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “tonsure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tonˈsu.re/
• Rhymes: -ure
• Hyphenation: ton‧sù‧re

Noun

tonsure f

1. plural of tonsura

Anagrams

• resunto, strenuo

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Latin

Participle

tōnsūre

1. vocative masculine singular of tōnsūrus

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tonsūra.

Noun

tonsure f (oblique plural tonsures, nominative singular tonsure, nominative plural tonsures)

1. tonsure (hair)

Descendants

• → English: tonsure
• French: tonsure

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (tonsure, supplement)
• tonsure on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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Spanish

Verb

tonsure

1. inflection of tonsurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative