tonitrus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
For unattested *tonitus, from tonō (“I thunder”) + -tus, with insertion of -r- after fulgetrum (“lightning”).[1] Or, directly inherited from Proto-Italic *tonatros, thematicized from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tónh₂-tr̥ (“thunder”); compare Proto-Indo-Iranian *tánHtā.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtɔ.nɪ.trʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt̪ɔː.ni.t̪rus]
Noun
tonitrus m (genitive tonitrūs); fourth declension
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tonitrus | tonitrūs |
| genitive | tonitrūs | tonitruum |
| dative | tonitruī | tonitribus |
| accusative | tonitrum | tonitrūs |
| ablative | tonitrū | tonitribus |
| vocative | tonitrus | tonitrūs |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “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
- the heavens are shaken by the thunder: caelum tonitru contremit
- ^ 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