tonitrus

Latin

Alternative forms

• tonitruum

Etymology

Derived from tonāre (“to thunder”), tonō (“I thunder”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈto.ni.trus/

Noun

tonitrus m (genitive tonitrūs); fourth declension

1. thunder

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	tonitrus	tonitrūs
genitive	tonitrūs	tonitruum
dative	tonitruī	tonitribus
accusative	tonitrum	tonitrūs
ablative	tonitrū	tonitribus
vocative	tonitrus	tonitrūs

Descendants

• Franco-Provençal: tonêrro
• French: tonnerre
• Portuguese: estrondo, tonítruo
• Romanian: tunet
• Spanish: estruendo

References

• tonitrus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tonitrus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tonitrus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the heavens are shaken by the thunder: caelum tonitru contremit