τόνος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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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 | ||||||||||
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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[1], 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) ΄ tonos (the stress accent used in modern Greek)
- (music) note, pitch, tone
- shade
Declension
Declension of τόνος
Coordinate terms
- . τελεία •
- , κόμμα •
- : δύο τελείες •
- · άνω τελεία •
- ; ερωτηματικό •
- ! θαυμαστικό •
- « » εισαγωγικά •
- " “ ” εισαγωγικά •
- ' ‘ ’ εισαγωγικά •
- ' ’ απόστροφος •
- ¨ διαλυτικά •
- ΄ τόνος •
- ‐ ενωτικό •
- — παύλα •
- … αποσιωπητικά •
- ( ) παρένθεση •
- [ ] αγκύλη •
- { } άγκιστρο •
- » : 〃 ομοιωματικά •
- see also: Greek Punctuation and Greek alphabet (Diacritics)
Descendants
- English: tonos
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French tonne (“ton”).
Noun
τόνος • (tónos) m
Declension
Declension of τόνος
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Italian tonno (“tuna”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tunnus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos)
Noun
τόνος • (tónos) m (plural τόνοι)
- tuna (fish)
Declension
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
- Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Greek terms inherited from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- Greek masculine nouns
- el:Orthography
- el:Typography
- el:Grammar
- el:Music
- Greek nouns declining like 'δρόμος'
- Greek terms borrowed from French
- Greek terms derived from French
- Greek terms borrowed from Italian
- Greek terms derived from Italian
- Greek terms derived from Latin
- el:Fish
- el:Punctuation marks
- el:Units of measure