different between intonation vs intone

English

Etymology

From French intonation, from Medieval Latin intonatio, from inton? +? -ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nt??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

intonation (countable and uncountable, plural intonations)

1. (linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
2. The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
3. Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.

   Her intonation was false.

4. Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.
5. A thundering; thunder.

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Translations

References

• intonation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• intonation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

intonation f (plural intonations)

1. intonation (all senses)

English

Etymology

From Old French entoner, from Medieval Latin intonare

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?to?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?t??n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Verb

intone (third-person singular simple present intones, present participle intoning, simple past and past participle intoned)

1. (transitive) To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.
2. (transitive) To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant.

   • But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

3. (intransitive) To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound.

Derived terms

References

• intone in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• intone in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.