Tone

Morpheme

Tone

Type

free base

Denotation

sound, pitch, quality

Etymology

Middle English ton, tone; Latin tonus; Ancient Greek tónos, from teínein

Evidence

allotone, atonal, ditone, eigentone, goldtone, intertone, intonation, intone, intoned, intones, intoning, nontonal, overtone, ringtone, semitone, semitone, tonal, tonality, tonally, tone, toned, toneless, tonelike, toneme, toner, tones, tonic, tonicity, tonics, toning, tritone, undertone

Notes

tone, tonus, ton, and tune are doublets

Homographs

Ton(e)