"tone (of voice)" in seven languages
Meaningtone (of voice)
Spanish
tono
/ˈtono/
masc.learned
French
ton
/tɔ̃/
masc.learned
Don't confuse it with ton 'your' (ton livre).
Italian
tono
/ˈtɔno/
masc.learned
Portuguese
tom
/tõ/
masc.learned
Romanian
ton
/ton/
neut.learned
Catalan
to
/tɔ/
masc.learned
English
tone
/toʊn/
from Latin/French · Latin tonus, via Old French
English → Italiantone (of voice)tonoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
TONUM‘tension, pitch (Greek tónos)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A Greek tónos was a stretching, as of a string, and the stretch sets the pitch. English tune is a by-form of tone.
English relatives: tune, intonation, monotonous, tonic
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In a sentence
- esNo me gusta su tono.
- frJe n'aime pas son ton.
- itNon mi piace il suo tono.
- ptNão gosto do tom dele.
- roNu-mi place tonul lui.
- caNo m'agrada el seu to.
- enI don't like his tone.
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