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tondeo

to cut the hair, shear

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Georgicon 13 · 9.19/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Agamemnon 3 · 5.39/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 3 · 5.38/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 27 · 3.83/10k
Remedia Amoris 2 · 3.81/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Epigrammata 18 · 3.2/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k

Densest 12 of 63 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. tondeo — de Vaan

tondeo 'to cut the hair, shear' [v. II; pf totondi, ppp. tonsum] (PL+) Derivatives: tdnsilis 'made smooth by clipping' (P1.+), tonsus, -lis 'style of haircut' (P1.+), tonsor 'barber' (P1.+), tdnstrix 'female barber' (P1.+), tonstrlna 'barber's shop' (P1-+), tonsHro 'shearing, clipping' (Varro+), tonsitare 'to shear' (PL+); ottondere 'to strip of, shear' (P1.+), detondere 'to shear, prune' (P1.+). Pit. *tond-eje-. … — [de Vaan, s.v. tondeo, p. 636]

2. tondĕo — Lewis & Short

tondĕo, tŏtondi, tonsum, 2 (collat. form acc. to the third conj.: OVES TONDVNTVR, Calend. ap. Grut. 138), v. a.for tomdeo; root in Gr. te/mnw, to cut,

I to shear, clip, crop, to shave, etc.

I Lit.: barbam et capillum, Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58; so, barbam, Mart. 11, 39, 3: capillum, Ov. M. 8, 151: cutem, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 7: os, Cat. 61, 139: ovem, Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 28; Hor. Epod. 2, 16; Verg. G. 3, 443; Plin. 18, 27, 67, § 257; cf. lanam, Hor. C. 3, 15, 14: naevos in facie, Plin. 28, 4, 6, § 34: saltatrix tonsa, i. e. with hair clipped short (of the Consul Gabinius), Cic. Pis. 8, 18; cf.: tonsus puer or minister, cropped, i. e. common, mean, Mart. 10, 98, 9; 11, 11, 3: ad alta tonsum templa cum reum misit, i. e. acquitted (prop. without the untrimmed hair of accused persons), id. 2, 74, 3.—Mid.: lavamur et tondemur et convivimus ex consuetudine, Quint. 1, 6, 44.— Absol.: ne tonsori collum committeret, tondere filias suas docuit, Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58.—And in reflex. sense: ut decrescente lunā tondens calvus fiam, shaving myself, Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 2: candidior postquain tondenti barba cadebat, Verg. E. 1, 29.—

II Transf.

A To crop, lop, prune, trim: ille comam mollis jam tondebat hyacinthi, was cropping, Verg. G. 4, 137: violas manu, Prop. 3, 13, 29: vitem in pollicem, Col. 4, 21, 3: oleas, vites, Plin. 15, 1, 2, § 4: balsamum, id. 12, 25, 54, § 112: ilicem bipennibus, to lop, Hor. C. 4, 4, 57: myrtos, Quint. 8, 3, 8.—

B To mow, reap: tonsas cessare novales patiere, after harvest, Verg. G. 1, 71: nocte arida prata Tondentur, id. ib. 1, 290: tondeturque seges maturos annua partus, Tib. 4, 1, 172: tonsam verrit humum, Ov. R. Am. 192; Sen. Phoen. 130.—

C To crop, to graze, feed, or browse upon, to eat off; to pluck, gather, cull (poet.): ex uno tondentes gramina campo Lanigerae pecudes, Lucr. 2, 660: pabula (pecudes), id. 2, 317: dumeta (juvenci), Verg. G. 1, 15: campum late (equi), id. A. 3, 538: viridantia gramina morsu, id. Cul. 49: tondentes comam fluvii capellae, App. M. 5, p. 169, 37: jecur rostro (vultur), Verg. A. 6, 598: ales avida fecundum jecur, Sen. Agam. 18; cf. in a Greek constr.: illa autem, quae tondetur praecordia rostro Alitis, Sil. 13, 839. —

D As in Engl., to shave, fleece, for to deprive, plunder (very rare): adibo hunc . . . itaque tondebo auro usque ad vivam cutem, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 8: tondens purpureā regna paterna comā, Prop. 3, 19 (4, 18), 22.

3. tondeö — Walde–Hofmann

tondeö, totondi, tönsum, -Ere „schere, rupfe ab, schneide ab. prelle“ (seit Plaut., spätl. Inschr. und rom. tondö), ebenso tönsus, -a. -um ,geschoren^, rom. nebst *lönsäre, *tönsiäre; vgl. tönsilis, -e „geschoren“ (seit Plt, ebenso tönsitö, -Are „schere* und tapétia tönsilia, -ium [sc. tönsts villis) „geschoren* — [levis, opp. hirsütus) s. Leumann -lis 56f.), tönsus, -us m. „Haarschnitt“ seit Bir. tonsiö. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. tondeö, p. 1597]

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. tondeo (scan pp. 636-637; entry #1816). Root candidates: *tend-, *tem-.
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. tondeö (scan p. 1597; entry #3040).

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