tonel

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese tonel (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French tonel, diminutive of tone (“large barrel”), from Late Latin tunna, from Proto-Celtic *tunna (“hide, skin”).

• IPA^(key): /toˈnɛl/

tonel m (plural toneis)

1. barrel; tun
   • 1457, F. R. Tato Plaza (ed.), Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos. Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega, page 181:

     Jtem diso que oýo diser que leuara hũu tonel da dita grãja de Saar porla cõgostra ao sopee Vasco de Vialo e que nõ sabe se era tonel ou pipa

     Item, he said that he heard that Vasco of Bealo took away a tun from that farm of Sar, by the sunken lane there near, but that he did not know whether it was a tun or a pipe

   Synonyms: barril, bocoi, pipa

2. (dated) tun (unit of liquid volume)

• entonelar
• tonelada
• toneleiro

• “tonel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “tonel” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “tonel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “tonel” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tonel” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

tonel m (oblique plural toneaus or toneax or toniaus or toniax or tonels, nominative singular toneaus or toneax or toniaus or toniax or tonels, nominative plural tonel)

1. barrel (large usually wooden container)
   • circa 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci coumence li diz de l'erberie:

     se vos n'aveiz vermeil, preneiz de la bele yaue clere: car teiz a un puis devant son huix qui n'a pas .I. tonel de vin en son celier.

     If you don't have red [wine], take some beautiful clear water: For any person that doesn't have a barrel of wine in their cellar has a well in front of their door.

• Middle French: tonnel
  • French: tonneau

From Old Portuguese tonel, from Old French tonel, diminutive of tone (“large barrel”), from Late Latin tunna, from Proto-Celtic *tunna (“hide, skin”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tu.ˈnɛɫ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /to.ˈnɛw/
• Hyphenation: to‧nel
• Rhymes: -ɛw

tonel m (plural tonéis)

1. vat; tun (a large tub or cask)
2. tun (unit of liquid volume equal to two pipes)

From Old French tonel, diminutive of tone (“large barrel”), from Late Latin tunna, from Proto-Celtic *tunna (“hide, skin”).

• Rhymes: -el

tonel m (plural toneles)

1. barrel
   • 1914, Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla 32:

     Al contrario, con lastre se tiene uno mejor en pie. Es que no existo. Mira, ahora poco, al cenar me parecía como si todo eso me fuese cayendo desde la boca en un tonel sin fondo.

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2. barrel roll

• barril

• tonelada
• tonelero
• tonelería