tonos

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒnɒs/

tonos (plural tonoi)

1. (orthography and typography) The Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic: ⟨ ΄ ⟩, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed syllable.
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   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 68:

     Like the Greek-Byzantine accents, so also the Jewish, are classified in tonoi—Hebrew rum, marking tonal value, chronoi—shehiya, marking time value, pneumata—gova, specifying dynamic value.

• The tonos is also used to distinguish some homographic monosyllables; for example: η (i), the feminine definite article, and ή (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 ⟨ ˈ ⟩, the IPA primary-stress marker); however, in most cases, it and the oxia both take the form of the Latin-script acute accent: ⟨ ´ ⟩.

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɔ.noːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɔː.nos]

tonōs

1. accusative plural of tonus

• IPA^(key): /ˈtonos/ [ˈt̪o.nos]
• Rhymes: -onos
• Syllabification: to‧nos

tonos m pl

1. plural of tono