The corpus record — Latin

tonsilis

tonsilis · adj

that may be shorn

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Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

tonsĭlis — Lewis & Short

tonsĭlis, e, adj.tondeo,

I that may be shorn, cut, or clipped.

I Lit.: villus, Plin. 8, 50, 76, § 203: facilitas piceae, id. 16, 10, 18, § 40. —

II Transf., for tonsus, shorn, clipped, cut, lopped: tapetes, Matius ap. Gell. 20, 9, 3: nemora, Plin. 12, 2, 6, § 13; cf. buxetum, Mart. 3, 58, 3.

Where it came from

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