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- Greek · learned borrowing fromτόνος“stress, accent”
- English todaytonos
Learned borrowing from Greek τόνος (tónos, “stress, accent”). Doublet of tone.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tonos
Today it means: The Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic: ⟨ ΄ ⟩, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed syllable. Full definition →
Greek τόνος