tosillae

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [toːˈsɪl.lae̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪oˈs̬il.le]

tōsillae f pl (genitive tōsillārum); first declension

1. inflection of tōsilla:
   1. genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/vocative plural
2. contraction of tōnsillae
   • 45 BCE, Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.135:

     Is utraque ex parte tosillas attingens palato extremo atque intimo terminatur

     It [The gullet] is adjacent to the tonsils on either side of it, and reaches as far as the back or innermost part of the palate

First-declension noun, plural only.

• “tosillae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers