thronus
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtʰro.nus/, [ˈt̪ʰrɔnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtro.nus/, [ˈt̪rɔːnus]
Noun
thronus m (genitive thronī); second declension
- a throne
- an angelic order
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | thronus | thronī |
| Genitive | thronī | thronōrum |
| Dative | thronō | thronīs |
| Accusative | thronum | thronōs |
| Ablative | thronō | thronīs |
| Vocative | throne | thronī |
Derived terms
- Thronus Caesaris
Descendants
- Old Portuguese: trõo
- Borrowings
Some Romance languages may have instead inherited the word.
- Asturian: tronu
- Catalan: tron
- Czech: trůn
- Danish: trone
- Italian: trono
- Friulian: tron
- Hungarian: trónus
- Italian: trono
- Latvian: tronis
- Macedonian: трон (tron)
- Norwegian: trone
- Occitan: tron
- Old French: trone (see there for further descendants)
- Old Portuguese: trono
- Galician: trono
- Portuguese: trono
- Piedmontese: tròno
- Plautdietsch: Troon
- Russian: трон (tron)
- Spanish: trono
- → Tagalog: trono
- Swedish: tron
- Ukrainian: трон (tron)
References
- “thronus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- thronus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- thronus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “thronus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “thronus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin