tundo

From Proto-Italic *tundō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tunédti, nasal-infix present from the root *(s)tewd-,^[1] from *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Old Irish do·tuit (“to fall”), Dutch stoten, German stoßen, English stot, Albanian tund.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʊn.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtun.do]

tundō (present infinitive tundere, perfect active tutudī or tūsī, supine tūnsum or tūssum or tūsum); third conjugation

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

     proderit et tunsum gallae admiscere saporem […]

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

3. to harangue; to assail; to keep on at

• The perfect is rare, and only found as tutudī in classical sources; however, tūserunt is also attested in a surviving fragment by Naevius (3rd c. BCE).
• The supine is widely attested as tūnsum, tūssum and tūsum in classical sources.

• “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
• “tundo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “obtuse”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

tundo

1. first-person singular present indicative of tundir