The corpus record

τόν-ωσις

tonosis · ἡ

strengthening, bracing

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What it meant

τόν-ωσις · ton-ōsis — LSJ

strengthening, bracing, activity, force, ‘tone’

strengthening, bracing, Aret. CD 1.3; τοῦ βρέφους Sor. 1.95; τοῦ πνεύματος ib. 108; activity, force, Ruf. ap. Orib. 8.24.19: abs., ‘tone’, Apollon. ap. Orib. 7.19.1.

2 vehemence

vehemence in rhetoric, τονώσεις καὶ περιπαθήσεις Ph. 1.158.

II accentuation

accentuation, Eust. 341.21.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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