The story
- Latin · borrowed fromtōnsor“barber, hairdresser”
- English todaytonsor
From Latin tōnsor (“barber, hairdresser”), from the supine root of tondēre (“to shave, to shear”) + -or (“-or: forming agent nouns”).
Words from the same roots
Latintōnsor all →
tonsorial
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.