tonitrus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈto.ni.trus/, [ˈt̪ɔnɪt̪rʊs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈto.ni.trus/, [ˈt̪ɔːnit̪rus]

Noun

tonitrus m (genitive tonitrūs); fourth declension

  1. thunder
    Synonyms: ictus, fulmen

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

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

Descendants
  • Franco-Provençal: tonêrro
  • French: tonnerre
  • Galician: estrondo
  • Old Occitan: toneire, tonedre, troneire
  • Old French: tuneire
  • Portuguese: estrondo, tonítruo
  • Romanian: tunet
  • Spanish: estruendo, tronido

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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