tonus
French
noun
Definitions
- muscle tone, tonicity, tonus
- (by extension) energy, strength
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tonus (tone, sound, thunderclap, a sound).
Origin
Latin
tonus
Gloss
tone, sound, thunderclap, a sound
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
音
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- tone English
- tonus English
- *tronus Latin
- tonus Latin
- tono Italian
- truono Italian
- tuono Italian
- toonkunst Dutch, Flemish
- ton French
- тон Russian
- тонус Russian
- tono Spanish, Castilian
- trueno Spanish, Castilian
- τόνος Ancient Greek
- tóni Old Norse
- ton Old French
- to Catalan, Valencian
- tro Catalan, Valencian
- trono Galician
- tun Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- tôn Welsh
- toon Middle Dutch
- тонус Bulgarian
- Toun Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- trõo Old Portuguese
- ton Middle Low German
- tron Occitan
- tun Romansh
- truenu Asturian
- ton Friulian
- tronu Sicilian
- trón Ligurian
- tun Dalmatian