different between tonos vs tons

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?n?s/

Noun

tonos (plural tonoi)

1. (orthography and typography) The Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic: ? ? ?, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed syllable.

Usage notes

• The tonos is also used to distinguish some homographic monosyllables; for example: ? (i), the feminine definite article, and ? (í), the conjunction “or”. In such cases, the tonos does not reflect a difference in stress.
• When combined with the dialytika, the tonos is written between that diacritic’s two dots, as: ? ? ?.
• As a compromise of forms between the Ancient Greek oxia and baria, the tonos was designed as a vertical bar (similar to ? ? ?, the IPA primary-stress marker); however, in most cases, it and the oxia both take the form of the Latin-script acute accent: ? ´ ?.

Translations

Anagrams

• ONTOS, Ontos, Soton, oonts, snoot, toons

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?to.no?s/, [?t??no?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?to.nos/, [?t???n?s]

Noun

ton?s

1. accusative plural of tonus

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tonos/, [?t?o.nos]

Noun

tonos m pl

1. plural of tono

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?nz/
• Rhymes: -?nz
• Homophones: tonnes, tuns

Noun

tons

1. plural of ton

Noun

tons pl (plural only)

1. (colloquial) Lots; large quantities or numbers (of people or things).

   I have tons of pens, but none of them work.

   Tons of people attended the game.

Synonyms

• a lot
• a thing or two
• loads

Anagrams

• NOTs, SOTN, Ston, TNOs, nots, onst, snot

Catalan

Noun

tons

1. plural of to

Danish

Noun

tons

1. indefinite plural of ton
2. indefinite genitive singular of ton
3. indefinite genitive plural of ton

Faroese

Etymology

From Danish tons and English tons, plural form of ton.

Noun

tons n (genitive singular tons, plural tons)

1. ton

Declension

Derived terms

• tonsatal

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??/

Noun

tons m

1. plural of ton

Anagrams

• sont

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?tõ?/

Noun

tons m

1. plural of tom

Swedish

Noun

tons

1. indefinite genitive plural of ton
2. indefinite genitive singular of ton

Anagrams

• nots, ston