thronus

Latin

thronus

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰro.nus/, [ˈt̪ʰrɔnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtro.nus/, [ˈt̪rɔːnus]

Noun

thronus m (genitive thronī); second declension

1. a throne
2. an angelic order

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	thronus	thronī
Genitive	thronī	thronōrum
Dative	thronō	thronīs
Accusative	thronum	thronōs
Ablative	thronō	thronīs
Vocative	throne	thronī

Derived terms

• Thronus Caesaris

Descendants

• Old Galician-Portuguese: trõo

Borrowings

Some Romance languages may have instead inherited the word.

• Asturian: tronu
• Catalan: tron
• Czech: trůn
• Danish: trone
• Italian: trono
• Friulian: tron
• Hungarian: trónus
• Italian: trono
• Latvian: tronis
• Macedonian: трон (tron)
• Norwegian Bokmål: trone
• Norwegian Nynorsk: trone
• Occitan: tron
• Old French: trone (see there for further descendants)
• Old Galician-Portuguese: trono
  • Galician: trono
  • Portuguese: trono
• Piedmontese: tròno
• Plautdietsch: Troon
• Romanian: tron
• Russian: трон (tron)
• Spanish: trono
  • → Tagalog: trono
• Swedish: tron
• Ukrainian: трон (tron)

References

• “thronus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• thronus 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)
• thronus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “thronus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “thronus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin