tonal
See also: tonął
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtoʊnəl/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtəʊnəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊnəl
Etymology 1Edit
AdjectiveEdit
tonal (comparative more tonal, superlative most tonal)
- Of or relating to tones or tonality.
- Of or relating to the general character, mood, or trend of something.
- 2011 December 5, James Poniewozik, “Boardwalk Empire Watch: Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?”, in Time[1]:
- The lurid way the story played out felt like a tonal shift for Empire, but not necessarily a bad one—in the process of shedding its cool costume-drama attitude for grotesque family dysfunction, the episode felt for once less like a story about Prohibition and more one about a specific set of people.
- (music) Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
- (linguistics) Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).
AntonymsEdit
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TranslationsEdit
of or relating to tones or tonality
employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic
employing differences in pitch to distinguish differences in meaning
Etymology 2Edit
From Nahuatl tōnalli (“day, day sign”).
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
tonal (plural tonals)
- (in Mesoamerican mythology) An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.
- 1989, Robert Bartley Taylor, Indians of Middle America: an introduction to the ethnology of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, page 122:
- When a tonal suffers misfortune or death, the same thing happens to the person associated with it.
- 1989, Robert Bartley Taylor, Indians of Middle America: an introduction to the ethnology of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, page 122:
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Central NahuatlEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- (Amecameca): tonatih
- (Milpa Alta): tonaltzintli
EtymologyEdit
From Classical Nahuatl tonatiuh.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tonal
- (Tlaxcala) sun
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
AdjectiveEdit
tonal (feminine tonale, masculine plural tonaux, feminine plural tonales)
Further readingEdit
- “tonal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
tonal (strong nominative masculine singular tonaler, comparative tonaler, superlative am tonalsten)
DeclensionEdit
Positive forms of tonal
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| predicative | er ist tonal | sie ist tonal | es ist tonal | sie sind tonal | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | tonaler | tonale | tonales | tonale |
| genitive | tonalen | tonaler | tonalen | tonaler | |
| dative | tonalem | tonaler | tonalem | tonalen | |
| accusative | tonalen | tonale | tonales | tonale | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der tonale | die tonale | das tonale | die tonalen |
| genitive | des tonalen | der tonalen | des tonalen | der tonalen | |
| dative | dem tonalen | der tonalen | dem tonalen | den tonalen | |
| accusative | den tonalen | die tonale | das tonale | die tonalen | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein tonaler | eine tonale | ein tonales | (keine) tonalen |
| genitive | eines tonalen | einer tonalen | eines tonalen | (keiner) tonalen | |
| dative | einem tonalen | einer tonalen | einem tonalen | (keinen) tonalen | |
| accusative | einen tonalen | eine tonale | ein tonales | (keine) tonalen | |
Comparative forms of tonal
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| predicative | er ist tonaler | sie ist tonaler | es ist tonaler | sie sind tonaler | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | tonalerer | tonalere | tonaleres | tonalere |
| genitive | tonaleren | tonalerer | tonaleren | tonalerer | |
| dative | tonalerem | tonalerer | tonalerem | tonaleren | |
| accusative | tonaleren | tonalere | tonaleres | tonalere | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der tonalere | die tonalere | das tonalere | die tonaleren |
| genitive | des tonaleren | der tonaleren | des tonaleren | der tonaleren | |
| dative | dem tonaleren | der tonaleren | dem tonaleren | den tonaleren | |
| accusative | den tonaleren | die tonalere | das tonalere | die tonaleren | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein tonalerer | eine tonalere | ein tonaleres | (keine) tonaleren |
| genitive | eines tonaleren | einer tonaleren | eines tonaleren | (keiner) tonaleren | |
| dative | einem tonaleren | einer tonaleren | einem tonaleren | (keinen) tonaleren | |
| accusative | einen tonaleren | eine tonalere | ein tonaleres | (keine) tonaleren | |
Superlative forms of tonal
Further readingEdit
Highland Puebla NahuatlEdit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
tonal
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin tonus + -al.[1][2]
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
tonal m or f (plural tonais, not comparable)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “tonal” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
- ^ “tonal” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
tonal m or n (feminine singular tonală, masculine plural tonali, feminine and neuter plural tonale)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of tonal
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SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
tonal (plural tonales)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “tonal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014