The story
- Latin · derived fromtonsūra“a clipping, trimming”
- Old French · derived fromtonsure
- Middle English · inherited fromtonsure
- English todaytonsure
From Middle English tonsure, from Anglo-Norman and Old French tonsure, from Latin tonsūra (“a clipping, trimming”), from tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.