English Explanatory Dictionary

tonos

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic: ⟨ ΄ ⟩, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed syllable.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɒnɒs/

Word forms

tonos tonoi

Etymology

From the Modern Greek τόνος (tónos, “stress, accent”). Doublet of tone.

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