tonsure

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒn.ʃə(ɹ)/

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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.

tonsure (plural tonsures)

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

• nutrose, snouter, tenours

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

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃.syʁ/

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tonsure f (plural tonsures)

1. tonsure

• tondre

tonsure

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

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

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

tonsure f

1. plural of tonsura

• resunto, strenuo

tōnsūre

1. vocative masculine singular of tōnsūrus

Borrowed from Latin tonsūra.

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

1. tonsure (hair)

• → English: tonsure
• French: tonsure

• 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

tonsure

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