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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *tundō, nasal infix present from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Old Irish do·tuit (“falls, crumbles”), Dutch stoten, German stoßen, English stot, Albanian shtyj (“to push”).
Pronunciation
Verb
tundō (present infinitive tundere, perfect active tutudī, supine tūnsum); third conjugation
- to beat, strike, buffet
- 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
- to keep on at, assail
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References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Further reading
- “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.
- “obtuse”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Spanish
Verb
tundo
- first-person singular present indicative of tundir