Etymology

From Proto-HellenicCategory:Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic#ΤΟΝΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic#ΤΟΝΟΣ *tónos, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#ΤΟΝΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ΤΟΝΟΣ *tón-os, from *ten- (“stretch”).^[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

τόνος • (tónos) m (genitive τόνου)Category:Ancient Greek lemmas#ΤΟΝΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek nouns#ΤΟΝΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek paroxytone terms#ΤΟΝΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek masculine nouns#ΤΟΝΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek second-declension nouns#ΤΟΝΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension#ΤΟΝΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header#ΤΟΝΟΣCategory:Ancient Greek masculine nouns#ΤΟΝΟΣCategory:Pages with entries#ΤΟΝΟΣCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ΤΟΝΟΣ; second declension

1. (literal) tension (as produced in something which is stretched)
2. that which undergoes or induces tension
   1. a cord, rope or string
   2. a tendon
3. the tone or note produced by plucking a string under tension

References

Further reading

• “τόνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τόνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• τόνος in Pape, Wilhelm (1914), Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎ (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
• “τόνος”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “τόνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accent idem, page 5.
  • brace idem, page 92.
  • cable idem, page 108.
  • cadence idem, page 108.
  • cord idem, page 174.
  • hawser idem, page 389.
  • inflection idem, page 438.
  • intonation idem, page 454.
  • modulation idem, page 538.
  • note idem, page 562.
  • pitch idem, page 614.
  • rope idem, page 721.
  • strand idem, page 823.
  • tone idem, page 880.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tone”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• τόνος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Alternative forms

• τόννος (tónnos)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtonos/Category:Greek terms with IPA pronunciation#ΤΟΝΟΣ

Etymology 1

From Ancient GreekCategory:Greek terms inherited from Ancient Greek#ΤΟΝΟΣCategory:Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek#ΤΟΝΟΣ τόνος (tónos, “rope, chord, tone”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Greek terms borrowed from French#ΤΟΝΟΣCategory:Greek terms derived from French#ΤΟΝΟΣ tonne (“ton”).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from ItalianCategory:Greek terms borrowed from Italian#ΤΟΝΟΣCategory:Greek terms derived from Italian#ΤΟΝΟΣ tonno (“tuna”), from LatinCategory:Greek terms derived from Latin#ΤΟΝΟΣ tunnusCategory:Greek undefined derivations#ΤΟΝΟΣ, from Ancient GreekCategory:Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek#ΤΟΝΟΣ θύννος (thúnnos)Category:Greek undefined derivations#ΤΟΝΟΣ.