tondre

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *tondĕre, variant of Latin tondēre. Cognate with French tondre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

tondre (first-person singular present tonc, first-person singular preterite tonguí, past participle tos); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɔ/; (Valencia) /o/

1. to crop
2. to shear

• tonedor
• tosa

• tonsura
• tosquirar

• “tondre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Inherited from Old French tondre, from Vulgar Latin *tondĕre, variant of Latin tondēre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tend-, from *temh₂- (“to cut”).

• IPA^(key): /tɔ̃dʁ/

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tondre

1. (transitive) to shear (sheep)
2. (transitive) to mow, cut (grass; a lawn)
3. (transitive) to clip, cut (hair)
4. (transitive) to shave (one's head)
5. (transitive) to smooth, level (a surface)
6. (informal, transitive) to rob, clean someone out

• tondeur
• tonsure

• “tondre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
• Comment-conjuguer.fr - online conjugation of "tondre"

• dorent, dronte, endort, rodent, rôdent

Borrowed from Old Norse tundr.

tondre m (uncountable)

1. (Jersey) tinder

From Vulgar Latin *tondĕre, variant of Latin tondēre, present active infinitive of tondeō.

tondre

1. to shave (remove hair by cutting)

• Occitan: tondre, tónder

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “tondēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 13: To–Tyrus, page 24