tondere

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Italian

Etymology

With a change in conjugation, from Latin tondēre (to shave, shear), from Proto-Italic *tondeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tond-éye-ti, causative derivation of the root *tend- (to split, cut off).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈton.de.re/
  • Rhymes: -ondere
  • Hyphenation: tón‧de‧re

Verb

tóndere (first-person singular present tóndo, first-person singular past historic tondétti or (traditional) tondètti, past participle tondùto or tónso, auxiliary avére) (transitive, archaic or literary)

  1. to shave
    Synonym: tosare
    • 14th c., “Capitolo XV [Chapter 15]”, in Fioretti di San Francesco, published 1843, page 41:
      salutata divotamente la Vergine Maria dinanzi al suo altare, dov'ella era stata tonduta e velata, sì la menarono vedendo il luogo, infino a tanto ch'e' fu ora di desinare
      having devoutly hailed the Virgin Mary in front of her altar, where she'd been shaven and veiled, they brought her around to take a look at the place, until it was time for dinner
    • 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata terza, Novella II [Third Day, Second Novel]”, in Decamerone [Decameron]‎, Tommaso Hedlin, published 1527, page 76:
      con un paio di forficette, lequali portate havea, gli tondè alquanto dall'una delle parti i capelli
      with a small pair of scissors, which he had brought, he cut quite a bit of his hair on one side
  2. (by extension) to prune; to mow
    Synonym: potare
    • 1940, Riccardo Bacchelli, Mondo vecchio sempre nuovo [Ever-New Old World], Mursia, published 1969:
      le falci [] vibravan le punte nello spessore dell'erba, tondevano raso terra, leggiere, sicure ed avide
      the scythes vibrated their tips in the thickness of the grass, they mowed along the ground, light, secure, and greedy
  3. (by extension) to graze
    Synonym: brucare
    • 1793, Lorenzo Mascheroni, L'invito di Dafni Orobiano a Lesbia Cidonia:
      [] l'erba
      Tondea la mite agnella
      the meek lamb grazed the grass

Conjugation

Further reading

  • tondere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

tondēre

  1. inflection of tondeō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative