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tonus

tonus · m

The stretching

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Where it lives

De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
De Architectura 5 · 0.87/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

tŏnus — Lewis & Short

tŏnus, i, m., = to/nos.

I The stretching, straining of a rope: mollior, vehementior, Vitr. 10, 10, 6. —

II Trop.

A Lit., the sound, tone, of an instrument, Vitr. 5, 4; Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 1 med.; Mart. Cap. 9, § 959.—Of the tone of a syllable, accent, Nigid. ap. Gell. 13, 25, 1 sq.—

B Transf.

1 Like our tone, in painting, of the natural color of an object, Plin. 35, 5, 11, § 29.—

2 For tonitrus, thunder, Sen. Q. N. 2, 56, 1.

In the wild

tonis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.22
toni Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.4.3
tonus Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.10.6
toni Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.89
tonum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.22
tonis Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.4.3

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. tonus (scan p. 719; entry #11960).

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