τόνος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *tónos, from Proto-Indo-European *tón-os, from *ten- (“stretch”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tó.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈto.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈto.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈto.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈto.nos/
Noun
τόνος • (tónos) m (genitive τόνου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ τόνος ho tónos |
τὼ τόνω tṑ tónō |
οἱ τόνοι hoi tónoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τόνου toû tónou |
τοῖν τόνοιν toîn tónoin |
τῶν τόνων tôn tónōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τόνῳ tôi tónōi |
τοῖν τόνοιν toîn tónoin |
τοῖς τόνοις toîs tónois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν τόνον tòn tónon |
τὼ τόνω tṑ tónō |
τοὺς τόνους toùs tónous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τόνε tóne |
τόνω tónō |
τόνοι tónoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὀξῠ́τονος (oxútonos)
- βᾰρῠ́τονος (barútonos)
Descendants
Further reading
- “τόνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τόνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τόνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “τόνος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- accent idem, page 5.
- brace idem, page 92.
- cable idem, page 108.
- cadence idem, page 108.
- cord idem, page 174.
- hawser idem, page 389.
- inflection idem, page 438.
- intonation idem, page 454.
- modulation idem, page 538.
- note idem, page 562.
- pitch idem, page 614.
- rope idem, page 721.
- strand idem, page 823.
- tone idem, page 880.
- “tone”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Greek
Alternative forms
- τόννος (tónnos)
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “rope, chord, tone”).
Noun
τόνος • (tónos) m (plural τόνοι)
- (orthography, typography, grammar) accent (΄), tonos (the stress accent used in modern Greek)
- (music) note, pitch, tone
- shade
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | τόνος (tónos) | τόνοι (tónoi) |
| genitive | τόνου (tónou) | τόνων (tónon) |
| accusative | τόνο (tóno) | τόνους (tónous) |
| vocative | τόνε (tóne) | τόνοι (tónoi) |
Coordinate terms
- . τελεία (teleía)
- , κόμμα (kómma)
- : δύο τελείες (dýo teleíes)
- · άνω τελεία (áno teleía)
- ; ερωτηματικό (erotimatikó)
- ! θαυμαστικό (thavmastikó)
- « » εισαγωγικά (eisagogiká)
- " “ ” εισαγωγικά (eisagogiká)
- ' ‘ ’ εισαγωγικά (eisagogiká)
- ' ’ απόστροφος (apóstrofos)
- ¨ διαλυτικά (dialytiká)
- ΄ τόνος (tónos)
- ‐ ενωτικό (enotikó)
- — παύλα (pávla)
- … αποσιωπητικά (aposiopitiká)
- ( ) παρένθεση (parénthesi)
- [ ] αγκύλη (agkýli)
- { } άγκιστρο (ágkistro)
- » : 〃 ομοιωματικά (omoiomatiká)
- see also: Greek Punctuation and Greek alphabet (Diacritics)
Related terms
Descendants
- English: tonos
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French tonne (“ton”).
Noun
τόνος • (tónos) m (plural τόνοι)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | τόνος (tónos) | τόνοι (tónoi) |
| genitive | τόνου (tónou) | τόνων (tónon) |
| accusative | τόνο (tóno) | τόνους (tónous) |
| vocative | τόνε (tóne) | τόνοι (tónoi) |
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Italian tonno (“tuna”), from Latin tunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos).
Noun
τόνος • (tónos) m (plural τόνοι)
- tuna (fish)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | τόνος (tónos) | τόνοι (tónoi) |
| genitive | τόνου (tónou) | τόνων (tónon) |
| accusative | τόνο (tóno) | τόνους (tónous) |
| vocative | τόνε (tóne) | τόνοι (tónoi) |
Further reading
τόνος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
