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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
tōsillae f pl (genitive tōsillārum); first declension
- inflection of tōsilla:
- genitive/dative singular
- nominative/vocative plural
- Contraction of tōnsillae.
45 BCE,
Cicero,
De Natura Deorum 2.135:
- Is utraque ex parte tosillas attingens palato extremo atque intimo terminatur
- It is adjacent to the tonsils on either side of it, and reaches as far as the back or innermost part of the palate
Inflection
First-declension noun, plural only.
References
- “tosillae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers