ton

head

ton m (feminine ta, masculine plural tos, feminine plural tes)

ta (feminine)
tos (masculine plural)
tes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old Catalan ton, from Vulgar Latin *tum, reduced form of Latin tuum, from Proto-Italic *towos. Compare Occitan and French ton.
In unstressed position in Vulgar Latin tuum, tuam etc. were monosyllabic and regularly became ton, ta etc. in Catalan. When stressed they were disyllabic and became teu, tua > teua etc.


ton

third-person singular present indicative

inflection of tondre:
second-person singular imperative


ton

ton (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])


ton

ton c or n (singular definite tonnet or tonnen, plural indefinite ton or tons, abbreviation t)

tonnet (definite singular)
tonnen (definite singular)
ton (indefinite plural)
tons (indefinite plural)
t (abbreviation)

From English ton, variant of tun (“cask”).


ton

Dat zou zeker een ton kosten.

Dat zou zeker een ton euro kosten.

140.000 euro is bijna drie ton gulden

100,000 of some monetary unit, particularly guilders

Hij leende tonnen met geld.

nl-noun

ton f (plural tonnen, diminutive tonnetje n)

tonnen (plural)
tonnetje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: ton

Negerhollands: ton, tono

Petjo: tong

→ Caribbean Javanese: thong

→ Indonesian: ton

From Middle Dutch tonne, from Medieval Latin tunna.


ton

Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun, particularly:

The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.

The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.

The metric ton of 1000 kilograms, 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.

Any of various units of volume, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun, particularly:

The measurement ton of (US) 40 or (UK) 42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).

The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).

I’ve got a ton of work to do.

I've got tons of work to do.

(figuratively) Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.

(HVAC) A unit of thermal power equal to 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.5 kW), approximating the idealized rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of 1 short ton of ice per day at 0°C.

(colloquial, chiefly UK) Synonym of hundred, particularly

Synonym of hundred, particularly
100 pounds sterling.

Synonym of hundred, particularly
100 points.

Synonym of hundred, particularly
100 runs.

Speed along the lane / Do a ton or a ton and twenty-five

1970, Mungo Jerry (lyrics and music), “In The Summertime”, in In The Summertime:

Neil: How fast can this thing go then, do you reckon?
Simon: Well, it's the special edition, so I reckon it could probably top a ton.
Neil: Bollocks!

2008, Damon Beesley, Iain Morris, “Caravan Club”, in The Inbetweeners, Series 1, Episode 5, E4:

The HSDT team, however, had some work to do, although by the end of 1972 the power car interior had been adjusted and BR had agreed to 'double-manning' with extra pay when speeds topped the ton.

2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 50:

Synonym of hundred, particularly
A speed of 100 mph.

→ Tokelauan: tone, tane

ton

various units of mass notionally equivalent to a tun

läjäpäin

any hyperbolically or oppressively large amount

satanen (note that km/h is used in Finland and thus satanen is generally understood as 100 km/h or about 60 mph; 100 mph is around 160 km/h)

Variant of tun (“cask”), influenced by Old French tonne (“ton”).


ton

A clergyman cannot be high in state or fashion. He must not head mobs, or set the ton in dress.

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 191:

If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are selfish.

1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:

[S]he thought herself incapable of being flattered by the attentions of a man she despised, because he was the reigning idol of the ton […].

1790, Amelia Opie, chapter 13, in Dangers of Coquetry, volume I:

The party might consist of thirty three Of highest caste—the Brahmins of the ton.

1823 December 17, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos XII.—XIII.—and XIV., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto XIII, (please specify the stanza number):

Pen was somewhat older than many of his fellow-students, and there was that about his style and appearance, which, as we have said, was rather haughty and impertinent, that stamped him as a man of ton—very unlike those pale students who were talking law to one another, and those ferocious dandies, in rowing shirts and astonishing pins and waistcoats, who represented the idle part of the little community.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 30, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC:

Borrowed from French ton (“manner”), from Latin tonus. Doublet of tone, tune, and tonus.


ton

Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.


ton

your (second-personal singular possessor)

frp-det

ton (feminine ta, masculine plural tos or tes, feminine plural tes)

ta (feminine)
tos (masculine plural)
tes (masculine plural)
tes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *tum. Doublet of tin (possessive pronoun).


ton

Tu as pensé à prendre ton livre ?

Ton écriture est jolie.

J’aime beaucoup ton manteau.

1 Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel

For the singular persons there are gender-neutral neologisms man

Inherited from Old French ton, tos, from Latin tuus.


ton

Il y a un ton entre do et ré

Je n’aime pas le ton sur lequel tu me parles!

I don’t like your tone! (I don’t like the way you are talking to me!)

Différents tons de rouge.

→ Turkish: ton

Borrowed from Latin tonus. Doublet of tonus, a later borrowing.


ton

From Latin tonus, from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos). Compare Italian tuono, Romansch tun, tung, Dalmatian tun, Romanian tun.


ton

From Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos). Compare Italian tonno.


ton

Ultimately borrowed from Latin tonus. Compare French ton, Italian tono.


ton

Hammadi Sammba ko leydi Funnaange iwi. Wolarɓe Labe ɓen kadi ko ton iwi.
Hammadi Samba came from a region situated in the East. The Wolarɓe of Labe also came from over there.


ton

tonne, metric ton: a unit of weight (mass) equal to 1000 kilograms.

register ton, a unit of a ship's capacity equal to 100 cubic feet or 2.83 m³.

long ton, weight ton: the avoirdupois or Imperial ton of 2,240 pounds (1,016.0469 kg).

id-noun

ton (first-person possessive tonku, second-person possessive tonmu, third-person possessive tonnya)

tonku (first-person possessive)
tonmu (possessive second-person)
tonnya (possessive third-person)

From Dutch ton, from Middle Dutch tonne, from Old French [Term?], from Latin tunna, tonna, itself from a Celtic word cognate to Irish tonn (“skin”).


ton

From Dutch toon, from Middle Dutch toon, ultimately from Latin tonus.


ton

head

ton m (genitive singular toin, nominative plural toin)

toin (genitive singular)
toin (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
ton (indefinite singular)
toin (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a thoin (indefinite singular)
a thona (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
toin (indefinite singular)
ton (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an ton (definite singular)
na toin (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an toin (definite singular)
na dton (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an ton (definite singular)
don ton (definite singular)
leis na toin (definite plural)
ton
thon
dton


ton

Jiizas ton roun an se tu dem[…]

2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Luuk 23:28:


ton

From Old English tān; equivalent to to + -en (plural suffix).


ton

your (second-person singular possessive)

French: ton


ton

desctree

⇒ Javanese: ꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀ (tonton)
→ Malay: tonton
Indonesian: tonton


ton

head

ton m (oblique plural tons, nominative singular tons, nominative plural ton)

tons (oblique plural)
tons (nominative singular)
ton (nominative plural)


ton

ton (nominative singular)
tony (nominative plural)
tonu (genitive singular)
tonów (genitive plural)
tonowi (dative singular)
tonom (dative plural)
ton (accusative singular)
tony (accusative plural)
tonem (instrumental singular)
tonami (instrumental plural)
tonie (locative singular)
tonach (locative plural)
tonie (singular vocative)
tony (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin tonus, from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos), from Proto-Hellenic *tónos, from Proto-Indo-European *tónos, from *ten-.


ton

Erzya: тон (ton)

Moksha: тон (ton)

Possibly from Proto-Uralic *tinä, via earlier *tun.


ton

toni (plural)
ton (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
tonul (accusative definite nominative singular)
toni (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
tonii (accusative definite nominative plural)
ton (indefinite singular)
tonului (definite singular)
toni (indefinite plural)
tonilor (definite plural)
tonule (singular vocative)
tonilor (plural vocative)


ton

tonuri (plural)
ton (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
tonul (accusative definite nominative singular)
tonuri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
tonurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
ton (indefinite singular)
tonului (definite singular)
tonuri (indefinite plural)
tonurilor (definite plural)
tonule (singular vocative)
tonurilor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French ton, from Latin tonus. Doublet of tun.


ton

tȏn (canonical masculine)
то̑н (Cyrillic)
tȏn (nominative singular)
tónovi (nominative plural)
tona (genitive singular)
tonova (genitive plural)
tonu (dative singular)
tonovima (dative plural)
ton (accusative singular)
tonove (accusative plural)
tone (singular vocative)
tonovi (plural vocative)
tonu (locative singular)
tonovima (locative plural)
tonom (instrumental singular)
tonovima (instrumental plural)


ton

ton (nominative singular)
tuäna (dual nominative)
tij (nominative plural)
tuu (genitive singular)
tuännai (dual genitive)
tij (genitive plural)
tuu (accusative singular)
tuännaid (accusative dual)
tiʹjjid (accusative plural)
tuʹnne (illative singular)
tuännaid (dual illative)
tiʹjjid (illative plural)
tuʹst (locative singular)
tuännast (dual locative)
tiiʹst (locative plural)
tuin (comitative singular)
tuännain (comitative dual)
tiʹjjivuiʹm (comitative plural)
tuutää (abessive singular)
tuännaitää (abessive dual)
tiʹjjitää (abessive plural)
tuuʹnen (essive singular)
tuännan (dual essive)
tuuʹđed (partitive singular)


ton

En bil väger ofta mellan ett och två ton
A car often weighs between one and two tonnes [1000–2000 kilograms]

tonne, metric ton (one thousand kilograms)

ton (indefinite nominative singular)
tons (genitive indefinite singular)
tonnet (definite nominative singular)
tonnets (definite genitive singular)
ton (indefinite nominative plural)
tons (genitive indefinite plural)
tonnen (definite nominative plural)
tonnens (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from English ton. First attested in 1795.


ton

a tone (sound of a particular frequency)

Han sa det med en arg ton

att hålla god ton

(literally, “to keep good tone [idiomatic]”)

tone (manner of speaking (or communicating more generally))

ton (indefinite nominative singular)
tons (genitive indefinite singular)
tonen (definite nominative singular)
tonens (definite genitive singular)
toner (indefinite nominative plural)
toners (genitive indefinite plural)
tonerna (definite nominative plural)
tonernas (definite genitive plural)


ton

Alternative form of toni (“flying fish”)


ton

(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Tongan.


ton

ton (definite accusative tonu, plural tonlar)

tonu (accusative definite)
tonlar (plural)


ton

tons (nominative plural)
ton (nominative singular)
tons (nominative plural)
tona (genitive singular)
tonas (genitive plural)
tone (dative singular)
tones (dative plural)
toni (accusative singular)
tonis (accusative plural)
o ton! (singular vocative)
o tons! (plural vocative)
tonu (predicative singular)
tonus (plural predicative)


ton

From Middle Welsh tonn, from Proto-Brythonic *tonn, from Proto-Celtic *tundā.


ton

tonnau (plural)
ton
don (soft)
nhon
thon

Middle Welsh tonn, from Proto-Celtic *tondā (“surface”), from the o-grade of Proto-Indo-European *tend- ~ *temh₁- (“to cut”).


ton

you two

Second person dual subject (medial position)

you (three or more)

Second person plural subject (medial position)