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tonor

tonor · m

old form of tenor, Quint. 1, 5, 23

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Where it lives

De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

1. tŏnŏr — Lewis & Short

tŏnŏr, ōris, m., old form of tenor,

Quint. 1, 5, 23.

2. tonor — Walde–Hofmann

tonor, -öris m. (archaisch nach Quint. inst. 1,5, 22): aus gr. tövog und echt lat. tenor zusammengeschweißt nach Wackernagel ALL. 15,221. ) — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. tonor, p. 1599]

In the wild

tonorum Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.4.4
tonores Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.22

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. tonor (scan p. 719; entry #11956).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. tonor (scan p. 1599; entry #3044).

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