Tono, tonas, tonáui, tonâtum, & aliquando tónui, tonitum, pen. cor. tonâre. Plin. To thunder: to make a greate sowne or noise: to speake loude aud terribly.Si tonuerit. Ci. If it shall thunder.Tonat Deus.Cic. Tonat cœlum. Plin. Cœlum tonat omne fragore.Virg.Ruinis horrificis tonat Aetna.Virg.Aetna with the falling downe of burnt peeces of the hill, maketh a terrible noise and roaring as it were a thunder.Tonuêre feris clamoribus astra. Sil. Mare tonuit ex alto. Sen. The sea roared, &c.Tympana tenta tonant palmis. Lucr. Spiritus ore tonat. Propert. Tonare murmure ac verberibus. Mart. Ore tonare.Virg.Verba tonare insano foro. Proper. Tonare laudes alicuius. Plin. To vtter ones praises wyth a loude voice.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
tŏno, ŭi, 1 (collat. form of third conj.: tonimus, Varr. ap. Non. 49, 21), v. n. and a. [root in Sanscr. tan-, to stretch, extend; Gr. tei/nw; whence teneo, tendo, tenus; cf. O. H. Germ. donar; Engl. thunder], to thunder.I.Lit.: ingens Porta tonat caeli, Enn. ap. Vet. Gram. ap. Col. (Ann. v. 597 Vahl.); imitated by Verg. G. 3, 261: cum tonuit laevum bene tempestate serenā, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 39, 82 (Ann. v. 517 Vahl.): ut valide tonuit!Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 10; so id. ib. 5, 1, 78: si fulserit, si tonuerit, Cic. Div. 2, 72, 149: Jove tonante, id. ib. 2, 18, 43; id. Phil. 5, 3, 7: tonans Juppiter, Hor. C. 3, 5, 1; id. Epod. 2, 29; Inscr. Orell. 2, p. 23: sub axe tonanti Sternitur aequor, Verg. A. 5, 820: pater nudā de rupe tonabat, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 7: nec si consulto fulmina missa tonent, id. 2, 34 (3, 32), 54: Diespiter per purum tonantes Egit equos, Hor. C. 1, 34, 7: Juppiter, tona, Sen. Med. 5, 31.—II.Transf., in gen. A.Neutr., to make a loud, thundering noise, to roar, rattle, crash, etc. (cf.: crepo, strepo): tympana tenta tonant, Lucr. 2, 618: Aetna horrificis ruinis, Verg. A. 3, 571: caelum omne fragore, id. ib. 9, 541; cf. id. ib. 12, 757: domus afflicta massa, Val. Fl. 4, 612: nemus fragore vasto, Sen. Troad. 173; Mart. 9, 69, 4.—Of loud, thundering speech: Pericles fulgere, tonare, dictus est, Cic. Or. 9, 29; Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 19; Col. praef. 30: qualis Pindarico spiritus ore tonat, Prop. 3, 17 (4, 16), 40; Verg. A. 11, 383.—B.Act., to thunder forth, to say or name with a thundering voice: tercentum tonat ore deos,
invokes with thundering voice
, Verg. A. 4, 510: verba foro, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 134: aspera bella, Mart. 8, 3, 14: talia celso ore, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 83: Cicerona, id. Ep. 3, 4.—Hence, P. a., as epithet of Jupiter: Tŏnans, antis, m., the thunderer, god of thunder, Ov. M. 1, 170; 2, 466; 11, 198; id. H. 9, 7; id. F. 6, 33; cf.: Capitolinus Tonans, id. ib. 2, 69: sceptriferi Tonantes, Jupiter and Juno, Sen. Med. 59.—Also of Saturn: falcifer Tonans, Mart. 5, 16, 5.