tonus

Borrowed from Latin tonus (“strain, tension”). Doublet of tone.

tonus (countable and uncountable, plural tonuses)

1. (biology) tonicity; tone

   muscular tonus

   • 1956, Personal character and cultural milieu: a collection of readings:

     Dr. H. S. Sullivan, for example, is known to many for his acute understanding of the postural tonuses of his patients.

• Notus, Tuson, noust, nouts, nutso, snout

Latin tonus

• IPA^(key): /ˈtonus/, [ˈt̪o̞nus̠]
• Rhymes: -onus
• Syllabification^(key): to‧nus

tonus

1. (medicine) Synonym of jänteys

Borrowed from Latin tonus. Doublet of ton, an earlier borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.nys/

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tonus m (plural tonus)

1. muscle tone, tonicity, tonus
2. (by extension) energy, strength

• tonicité
• tonifier

• “tonus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “tone”), from Proto-Hellenic *tónos, from Proto-Indo-European *tón-os, from *ten- (“stretch”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈto.nus/, [ˈt̪ɔnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈto.nus/, [ˈt̪ɔːnus]

tonus m (genitive tonī); second declension

1. The stretching or straining of a rope.
2. (by extension) A strain; tension.
3. (figuratively) The pitch, sound or tone of something.
4. (figuratively) A crack of thunder.

Second-declension noun.

• tonō

• “tonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tonus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tonus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French tonus.

tonus n (plural tonusuri)

1. muscle tone
2. tonus