tonstrina

Latin

Etymology

From tōnsor (“barber”) +‎ -īna (“-ery: suffix forming nouns of location where an activity is carried out”), from tondeō (“to clip, to trim”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tonˈstriː.na/, [t̪õːˈs̠t̪riːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tonˈstri.na/, [t̪onˈst̪riːnä]

Noun

tōnstrīna f (genitive tōnstrīnae); first declension

1. barbershop, a place to receive a professional haircut, particularly for men.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tōnstrīna	tōnstrīnae
genitive	tōnstrīnae	tōnstrīnārum
dative	tōnstrīnae	tōnstrīnīs
accusative	tōnstrīnam	tōnstrīnās
ablative	tōnstrīnā	tōnstrīnīs
vocative	tōnstrīna	tōnstrīnae

Related terms

• tondeō
• tōnsilis
• tōnsiō
• tōnsor
• tōnsōrius
• tōnstrīcula
• tōnstrīnum
• tōnstrīx
• tōnsūra
• tōnsus

References

• “tonstrina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press