Noun: truono
Gender: m
Hyphenation: truò‧no
| Singular m | truono |
| Plural m | truoni |
Sample Sentences
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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; …) [1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto IV, p. 52, vv. 1-3:]
Nouns inflected like truono
egocentrismo,
surrogato,
maxicappotto,
diidrofolato,
nipotismo,
buccellato,
bacinetto,
sfrido,
nevometro,
altofondo,
sfarzo,
sfagno,
sforzo,
sfondo,
burchiello,
rosatello,
sciacquamento,
sonnellino,
teletrattamento,
biroccino, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin tonus, (probably through a Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *tronus, with confluence from tonitrus). See: Latin Nouns '
tonus'.
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