tonitrus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === tonitruum n, tonitruus m === Etymology === From *tonitus, from tonō (“to thunder”) +‎ -tus, with insertion of -r- by analogy with fulgetrum (“lightning”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtɔ.nɪ.trʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtɔː.ni.trus] === Noun === tonitrus m (genitive tonitrūs); fourth declension thunder ==== Declension ==== Fourth-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -ibus or dative/ablative plural in -ubus). ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “tonitrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tonitrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “tonitrus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.