English search results for: tones

#1

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. make/resound like thunder
  2. speak thunderous tones/thunderously
  3. thunder
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#2

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. keep quiet/say nothing (about)
  2. mutter/whisper, talk in subdued tones
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. ditone, interval containing two whole tones
  2. major third
  • Age: Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
  • Area: Drama, Music, Theater, Art, Painting, Sculpture
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Souter, “A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.”, Oxford 1949
#4

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. ditone, interval containing two whole notes/tones
  2. major third
  • Age: Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
  • Area: Drama, Music, Theater, Art, Painting, Sculpture
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Latham, “Revised Medieval Word List”, 1980