tundo

From Proto-Italic *tundō, from Proto-Indo-European *tunédˢti, nasal-infix present from the root *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Old Irish do·tuit (“falls, crumbles”), Dutch stoten, German stoßen, English stot, Albanian tund.

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tundō (present infinitive tundere, perfect active tutudī, supine tūnsum or tūsum); third conjugation

1. to beat, strike, buffet
2. to pound, bruise, crush, pulp, bray (as in a mortar)
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.267:

     proderit et tunsum gallae admiscere saporem

     It's good too to blend a taste of pounded oak-apples

3. to keep on at, assail

• Italian: tondere, tondire, tondare
• Spanish: tundir
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *tōnsāre
  • Italian: tosare
  • Portuguese: tosar

• “tundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tundo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “obtuse”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

tundo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tundir