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dē-tondĕo, tŏtondi and tondi, tonsum, 2 (detotonderat, Varr. ap. Prisc. p. 868 P.; opp. detondit, Enn. ib.: detonderis, Cato R. R. 96, 1; Col. 7, 4, 7), v. a., to shear off, cut off, to clip, shear.
- I. Prop.: oves, Cato R. R. 96, 1; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 28; cf. Plaut. Bac. 5, 2, 10: virgulta (for which, shortly before, deputare), Col. 4, 23 fin.: crines, Ov. F. 6, 229; cf.: detonsa juventus, Pers. 3, 54: detonsi manni, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 15.
- II. Transf.: detonsae frigore frondes, i. e. stripped off, Ov. F. 3, 237: deque totondit agros laetos, i. e. lays waste, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 868 P. (An. v. 487 Vahl.): salices haedi, gramina vaccae, i. e. crop, eat, Nemes. Ecl. 1, 6.
dē-tŏno, ŭi, 1, v. n.
- I. To thunder down, to thunder.
- A. Prop.: hic (sc. Juppiter) ubi detonuit, Ov. Tr. 2, 35.
- B. Trop., to thunder forth, express in thundertones, to storm (freq. in Florus): captis superioribus jugis in subjectos detonuit, Flor. 1, 17, 5; of Hannibal’s invasion of Italy, id. 2, 6, 10 al.: adversus epistolam meam turba patricia detonabit, Hier. Ep. 47: haec ubi detonuit, Sil. 17, 202; of lofty poetry, Stat. Silv. 2, 7, 65.
- II. To cease thundering; so only trop., to cease raging: Aeneas nubem belli, dum detonet omnis, sustinet, * Verg. A. 10, 809 (bellantum impetum sustinet, donec deferveat, Serv.): ira, Val. Fl. 4, 294: dicendi vitiosa jactatio, Quint. 12, 9, 4.
dētonsĭo, ōnis, f. [detondeo], a shearing off: capitis, Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 3.
* dētonso, āre, v. intens. a. [detondeo], to shear off: capillum, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15, 11.
dētonsus, a, um, Part., from detondeo.