truono
Italian
Etymology
From Latin tonus, (probably through a Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *tronus, with confluence from tonitrus).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtrwɔ.no/
- Rhymes: -ɔno
- Hyphenation: truò‧no
Noun
truono m (plural truoni)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of tuono
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto IV, p. 52, vv. 1-3:
- Ruppemi l'alto sonno ne la testa ¶ un greve truono, sì ch'io mi riscossi ¶ come persona ch'è per forza desta; [...]
- Broke the deep lethargy within my head ¶ a heavy thunder, so that I upstarted ¶ like to a person who by force is wakened; [...]
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