Uncertain, perhaps fromtundō.(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)
tōnsa f (genitivetōnsae);first declension(poetic)
- (chiefly plural) anoar
- Synonym:rēmus
First-declension noun.
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
tōnsa
- inflection oftōnsus:
- nominative/vocativefemininesingular
- nominative/accusative/vocativeneuterplural
tōnsā
- ablativefemininesingular oftōnsus
- “tonsa”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tonsa”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "tonsa", 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)
- “tonsa”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tonsa”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers