Latin

Verb

tundō ‎(present infinitive tundere, perfect active tutudī, supine tūnsum); third conjugation

1. I beat, strike, buffet.
2. I pound, bruise, crush, pulp, bray (as in a mortar).
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 4.267

     proderit et tunsum gallae admiscere saporem […]

     It's good too to blend a taste of pounded oak-apples […]

3. I keep on at, assail.

Inflection

• The fourth principal part may be tūnsum or tūsum.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Portuguese: tosar

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tundo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• obtuse in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

Spanish

Verb

tundo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of tundir.