tonitrus

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Latin

[edit]
Latin Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia la
Tonitrus est strepitus, quem fulgur effert.

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

For unattested *tonitus, from tonō (I thunder) +‎ -tus, with insertion of -r- after fulgetrum (lightning).[1]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

tonitrus m (genitive tonitrūs); fourth declension

  1. thunder

Declension

[edit]

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tonitrus tonitrūs
Genitive tonitrūs tonitruum
Dative tonitruī tonitribus
Accusative tonitrum tonitrūs
Ablative tonitrū tonitribus
Vocative tonitrus tonitrūs
[edit]

Descendants

[edit]

References

[edit]
  • tonitrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tonitrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tonitrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the heavens are shaken by the thunder: caelum tonitru contremit
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “tonō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 623