tonitrus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Derived from tonāre (“to thunder”), tonō (“I thunder”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

tonitrus m (genitive tonitrūs); fourth declension

  1. thunder

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tonitrus tonitrūs
Genitive tonitrūs tonitruum
Dative tonitruī tonitribus
Accusative tonitrum tonitrūs
Ablative tonitrū tonitribus
Vocative tonitrus tonitrūs

Descendants

References
  • tonitrus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tonitrus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tonitrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the heavens are shaken by the thunder: caelum tonitru contremit
  1. tonner; in: Jacqueline Picoche, Jean-Claude Rolland, Dictionnaire étymologique du français, Paris 2009, Dictionnaires Le Robert, →ISBN
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