τόνος

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

τόνος • (tónos) m (genitive τόνου); second declension

1. rope, cord
2. chord
3. tone, note
4. tension

• ὀξῠ́τονος (oxútonos)

• Greek: τόνος (tónos)
• Latin: tonus

• τόνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• τόνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τόνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• τόνος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• 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.
• tone in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• τόννος (tónnos)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtonos/

From Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “rope, chord, tone”).

τόνος • (tónos) m (plural τόνοι)

1. (orthography, typography, grammar)  ΄  tonos (the stress accent used in modern Greek)
2. (music) note, pitch, tone
3. shade

see also: Greek Punctuation and Greek alphabet (Diacritics)

• English: tonos

Borrowed from French tonne (“ton”).

τόνος • (tónos) m

1. tonne, tonnage (unit of weight)

Borrowed from Italian tonno (“tuna”), from Latin tunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos)

τόνος • (tónos) m (plural τόνοι)

1. tuna (fish)