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語源

Borrowed from Latin tonus (“strain, tension”). Doublet of tone, tune, and ton (fashion/style).

名詞

tonus (countable and uncountable, plural tonuses or toni)

1. (biology) tonicity; tone

   muscular tonus

   • 1942, Myrtle Gladys Scott, Analysis of Human Motion: A Textbook in Kinesiology, page 51:

     The amount of stretch possible increases with the range in the joint and decreases with the cross section of the muscle and the amount of tonus or contraction in these antagonists .

   • 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.

   • 1964, Vasillĭ Vasilʹevich Parin, F. Z. Myerson, An Outline of the Clinical Physiology of the Circulation, page 210:

     At the same time, from the vasomotor point of view the artrioles are an extremely active part of the vascular bed , and every important change in the peripheral resistance is traceable to a corresponding change in the tonus of the arterioles .

2. A tonal system or mode used in Gregorian chant.
   • 2021, Irene Caiazzo, Constantinos Macris, Aurélien Robert, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, page 69:

     Aurelian associates antiphons and toni of the plain chant, so that the octave-based Pythagorean scale is exemlified by means of the liturgical chant, with the outstanding consequence that church music becomes the sounding representation of the harmony of the spherese and of human beings.

アナグラム

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

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈtɔ.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈtɔː.nus]

名詞

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.

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

参考

• tonō

参照

• “tonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "tonus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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.