tonitruant

tonitruant

English

Adjective

tonitruant (comparative more tonitruant, superlative most tonitruant)

1. Synonym of tonitruous

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.ni.tʁy.ɑ̃/

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Participle

tonitruant

1. present participle of tonitruer

Adjective

tonitruant (feminine tonitruante, masculine plural tonitruants, feminine plural tonitruantes)

1. thundering; raucous
   • 2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:

     dans les parcs et les stades, on chantait, on dansait, on riait, on organisait de grandes kermesses tonitruantes.

     In the parks and stadiums, we sang, we danced, we laughed, we organised raucous fêtes.

Further reading

• “tonitruant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tonitruant.

Adjective

tonitruant m or n (feminine singular tonitruantă, masculine plural tonitruanți, feminine and neuter plural tonitruante)

1. thundering

Declension

Declension of tonitruant

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	tonitruant		tonitruantă	tonitruanți	tonitruante
	definite	tonitruantul		tonitruanta	tonitruanții	tonitruantele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	tonitruant		tonitruante	tonitruanți	tonitruante
	definite	tonitruantului		tonitruantei	tonitruanților	tonitruantelor

References

• tonitruant in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN