tonos
English
Etymology
From the Modern (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Greek τόνος (tónos, “stress, accent”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
tonos (plural tonoi)
- (orthography and typography) The Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic: ⟨ ΄ ⟩, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed syllable.
Usage notes
- The tonos is also used to distinguish some homographic monosyllables; for example: η (i), the feminine definite article, and ή (í), the conjunction “or”. In such cases, the tonos does not reflect a difference in stress.
- When combined with the dialytika, the tonos is written between that diacritic’s two dots, as: ⟨ ΅ ⟩.
- As a compromise of forms between the Ancient Greek oxia and baria, the tonos was designed as a vertical bar (similar to ⟨ ˈ ⟩, the IPA primary-stress marker); however, in most cases, it and the oxia both take the form of the Latin-script acute accent: ⟨ ´ ⟩.
Translations
Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic
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Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈto.noːs/, [ˈt̪ɔnoːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈto.nos/, [ˈt̪ɔːnos]
Noun
(deprecated template usage) tonōs
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
tonos m pl
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