Latin

Alternative forms

• tonitruum

Noun

tonitrus m ‎(genitive tonitrūs); fourth declension

1. thunder

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Descendants

• Franco-Provençal: tonêrro
• French: tonnerre
• Portuguese: estrondo, tonítruo
• Romanian: tunet
• Spanish: estruendo

References

• tonitrus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tonitrus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tonitrus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the heavens are shaken by the thunder: caelum tonitru contremit
    

1. ↑ tonner; in: Jacqueline Picoche, Jean-Claude Rolland, Dictionnaire étymologique du français, Paris 2009, Dictionnaires Le Robert, ISBN 978-2-84902-424-9