tonus

See also: tónus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tonus (“a sound, tone”). See tone.

Noun

tonus (countable and uncountable, plural tonuses)

  1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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)

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tonus. Doublet of ton, an earlier borrowing.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tɔ.nys/
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Noun

tonus m (plural tonus)

  1. muscle tone, tonicity, tonus
  2. (by extension) energy, strength

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “tone”), from Proto-Hellenic *tónos, from Proto-Indo-European *tón-os, from *ten- (“stretch”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tonus m (genitive tonī); second declension

  1. The stretching or straining of a rope.
  2. (by extension) A strain; tension.
  3. (figuratively) The pitch, sound or tone of something.
  4. (figuratively) A crack of thunder.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tonus tonī
Genitive tonī tonōrum
Dative tonō tonīs
Accusative tonum tonōs
Ablative tonō tonīs
Vocative tone tonī

Descendants

See also

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 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

Etymology

From French tonus.

Noun

tonus n (plural tonusuri)

  1. muscle tone
  2. tonus

Declension
Declension of tonus
singular plural
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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