detondeo Latin · revision 34165

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la tondeō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deːˈtɔn.de.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [deˈtɔn.de.o]^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''dētondeō''' (present infinitive dētondēre, perfect active dētondī, supine dētōnsum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ An old perfect ''dētotondī'' is quoted from Varro, beside ''dētondī'' in Ennius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|tondeō|t2=to shear]].^(TLL)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan derives the simple verb from [[itc-pro|*tond-eje-]] and [[ine-pro|*tond-eie-|t=to shear]], and compares [[grc|τένδω|tr=téndō|t=to gnaw at]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan records it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) whose Bacchides has, in jest, ''altera iam bis detonsa certo est'', “the other has certainly been shorn twice already”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cato tells farmers to anoint sheep all over when they have shorn them,^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) and Ennius uses it figuratively of stripping rich fields.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) It is to cut hair short or crop a person: Ovid writes of shorn hair, and Persius of close-cropped youth.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Columella uses it of pruning shrubs,^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) and Ovid of leaves stripped by the cold returning to the trees.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Nemesianus uses it of cows cropping grass.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) In Medieval Latin it is used of clerical tonsure and of shaving the head as a punishment, and also means to mow.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus jokes about something shorn twice.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of shearing sheep.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius uses it of stripping fields.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of pruning.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 2nd half of the 3rd century AD – Nemesianus uses it of cows grazing.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|shear]], clip (an animal); to crop the hair of (a person).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|prune]] (a tree).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To cut off (hair, wool); to strip off (leaves).^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # (of cattle) To crop (grass).^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' To give the clerical [[m|en|tonsure]] to; to shave as a punishment.^(MLW)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[detonsio]]

+ * [[dētonsō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tondeō]]

+ * [[attondeō]]

+ * [[tōnsor]]

+ * [[tōnsūra]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}