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
• Galician: estrondo
• Old Occitan: toneire, tonedre, troneire
• Old French: tuneire
• Portuguese: estrondo, tonítruo
• Romanian: tunet
• Spanish: estruendo, tronido

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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the heavens are shaken by the thunder: caelum tonitru contremit