tonitruant
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin tonitruāns, present participle of tonitruō (“I thunder”).
Adjective edit
tonitruant (comparative more tonitruant, superlative most tonitruant)
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Participle edit
tonitruant
Adjective edit
tonitruant (feminine tonitruante, masculine plural tonitruants, feminine plural tonitruantes)
- thundering; raucous
- 2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:
- dans les parcs et les stades, on chantait, on dansait, on riait, on organisait de grandes kermesses tonitruantes.
- In the parks and stadiums, we sang, we danced, we laughed, we organised raucous fêtes.
Further reading edit
- “tonitruant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French tonitruant.
Adjective edit
tonitruant m or n (feminine singular tonitruantă, masculine plural tonitruanți, feminine and neuter plural tonitruante)
Declension edit
Declension of tonitruant
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | tonitruant | tonitruantă | tonitruanți | tonitruante | ||
definite | tonitruantul | tonitruanta | tonitruanții | tonitruantele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | tonitruant | tonitruante | tonitruanți | tonitruante | ||
definite | tonitruantului | tonitruantei | tonitruanților | tonitruantelor |
References edit
- tonitruant in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN