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tonus

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Borrowed from Latin tonus (“strain, tension”). Doublet of tone, tune, and ton (fashion/style).

noun tonuses · toni

countable, uncountable tonicity; tone muscular tonus
countable, uncountable A tonal system or mode used in Gregorian chant. Aurelian associates antiphons and toni of the plain chant, so that the octave-based Pythagorean scale is exemlified by means of the liturgical chant, with the outstanding consequence that church music becomes the sounding representation of the harmony of the spherese and of human beings.

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@misc{tonus_2026,
  title = {tonus},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tonus},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}