Where the Romanian word “ton” comes from
From French.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -i):
Din fr. thon.
→ French · DEX '98 - Homonym 1 (pl. -uri):
Din fr. ton, lat. tonus.
→ French · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- French (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- French thon
- In film dialogue
- 31 times per million words · number 1,882 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 25 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 76 72 72 109 92 - Swap in a synonym
- începe (Inherited Latin), sunet (Inherited Latin), accent (French), iniția (French), intonație (French), inflexiune (French)
- The same Latin word, entering Romanian twice
- tonus → tun
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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