tonus
See also: tónus
English
Noun
tonus (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Further reading
- “tonus” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “tone”), from Proto-Hellenic *tónos, from Proto-Indo-European *tón-os, from *ten- (“stretch”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈto.nus/, [ˈtɔ.nʊs]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈto.nus/, [ˈtɔː.nus]
Noun
tonus m (genitive tonī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | tonus | tonī |
| Genitive | tonī | tonōrum |
| Dative | tonō | tonīs |
| Accusative | tonum | tonōs |
| Ablative | tonō | tonīs |
| Vocative | tone | tonī |
See also
Descendants
- Asturian: tonu (borrowed), truenu
- Catalan: to (borrowed), tro
- Dalmatian: tun
- Dutch: toon (borrowed)
- English: ton (through French), tone (through Old French), tune (through Old French), tonus (borrowed)
- French: ton (borrowed), tonus (borrowed)
- Friulian: ton
- Galician: ton (borrowed), trono
- Italian: tono (borrowed), tuono
References
- 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, 1883–1887)
- tonus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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