tonus
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin tonus (“strain, tension”). Doublet of tone.
Noun
edittonus (countable and uncountable, plural tonuses)
- (biology) tonicity; tone
- muscular tonus
- 1956, Personal character and cultural milieu: a collection of readings:
- Dr. H. S. Sullivan, for example, is known to many for his acute understanding of the postural tonuses of his patients.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tonus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
editFinnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
edittonus
Declension
editInflection of tonus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | tonus | tonukset | |
genitive | tonuksen | tonusten tonuksien | |
partitive | tonusta | tonuksia | |
illative | tonukseen | tonuksiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | tonus | tonukset | |
accusative | nom. | tonus | tonukset |
gen. | tonuksen | ||
genitive | tonuksen | tonusten tonuksien | |
partitive | tonusta | tonuksia | |
inessive | tonuksessa | tonuksissa | |
elative | tonuksesta | tonuksista | |
illative | tonukseen | tonuksiin | |
adessive | tonuksella | tonuksilla | |
ablative | tonukselta | tonuksilta | |
allative | tonukselle | tonuksille | |
essive | tonuksena | tonuksina | |
translative | tonukseksi | tonuksiksi | |
abessive | tonuksetta | tonuksitta | |
instructive | — | tonuksin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin tonus. Doublet of ton, an earlier borrowing.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittonus m (plural tonus)
- muscle tone, tonicity, tonus
- (by extension) energy, strength
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “tonus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “tone”), from Proto-Hellenic *tónos, from Proto-Indo-European *tón-os, from *ten- (“stretch”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈto.nus/, [ˈt̪ɔnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈto.nus/, [ˈt̪ɔːnus]
Noun
edittonus m (genitive tonī); second declension
- The stretching or straining of a rope.
- (by extension) A strain; tension.
- (figuratively) The pitch, sound or tone of something.
- (figuratively) A crack of thunder.
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tonus | tonī |
Genitive | tonī | tonōrum |
Dative | tonō | tonīs |
Accusative | tonum | tonōs |
Ablative | tonō | tonīs |
Vocative | tone | tonī |
Descendants
edit- Asturian: truenu; → tonu
- Catalan: tro; → to
- Dalmatian: tun
- → Dutch: toon
- → Old French: ton
- → French: ton
- → English: ton
- → French: tonus
- Friulian: ton, tron
- Galician: trono; → ton
- → German: Ton
- Italian: tuono; → tono
- Occitan: tron; → ton
- Portuguese: trom; → tom (semi-learned), tono, tónus
- Romagnol: tràun
- Romanian: tun; → ton
- Romansch: tun, tung
- → Russian: то́нус (tónus), тон (ton)
- Sardinian: tronu
- Sicilian: tronu; → tonu
- Spanish: trueno; → tono
- → English: tone (or through Old French)
- → English: tonus
- → Welsh: tôn
See also
editReferences
edit- “tonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tonus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tonus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
editEtymology
editNoun
edittonus n (plural tonusuri)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) tonus | tonusul | (niște) tonusuri | tonusurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) tonus | tonusului | (unor) tonusuri | tonusurilor |
vocative | tonusule | tonusurilor |
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