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tonus
4 English words descend from Latin
tonus
, most common first.
tone
A specific pitch.
tune
A melody.
ton
The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
tonus
tonicity; tone