tonitruant
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin tonitruāns, present participle of tonitruō (“I thunder”).
Adjective[edit]
tonitruant (comparative more tonitruant, superlative most tonitruant)
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Participle[edit]
tonitruant
Adjective[edit]
tonitruant (feminine tonitruante, masculine plural tonitruants, feminine plural tonitruantes)
- thundering; raucous
- 2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:
- dans les parcs et les stades, on chantait, on dansait, on riait, on organisait de grandes kermesses tonitruantes.
- In the parks and stadiums, we sang, we danced, we laughed, we organised raucous fêtes.
Further reading[edit]
- “tonitruant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French tonitruant.
Adjective[edit]
tonitruant m or n (feminine singular tonitruantă, masculine plural tonitruanți, feminine and neuter plural tonitruante)
Declension[edit]
Declension of tonitruant
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | tonitruant | tonitruantă | tonitruanți | tonitruante | ||
definite | tonitruantul | tonitruanta | tonitruanții | tonitruantele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | tonitruant | tonitruante | tonitruanți | tonitruante | ||
definite | tonitruantului | tonitruantei | tonitruanților | tonitruantelor |
References[edit]
- tonitruant in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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