different between tonner vs tenner

English

Etymology

ton +? -er or tonne +? -er.

Noun

tonner (plural tonners)

1. (in combination) A vehicle or other object having a specified tonnage, or weighing a specified number of tons.

Anagrams

• Renton

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin ton?re, present active infinitive of ton?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh?- (“to thunder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?.ne/

Verb

tonner (impersonal)

1. (meteorology, impersonal) to thunder
2. to thunder (to make a noise like thunder)

Conjugation

Related terms

• tonnerre

Further reading

• “tonner” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

ten +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?n?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?n?(r)
• Homophone: tenor

Noun

tenner (plural tenners)

1. (informal) A monetary note (bill) whose face value is ten basic units of currency. Originally, a ten-shilling (half pound) note.
2. (film, slang) A kind of 10-kilowatt lamp.
   • 2008, Blain Brown, Motion Picture and Video Lighting (page 11)

     The basic 10K, known as a tenner or studio 10K, has a 20-inch fresnel. The big daddy of the group is the Big Eye tenner, which has a 24-inch lens.

3. A tennis shoe.

Translations

See also

• fiver

Anagrams

• rennet

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tenner m or f

1. indefinite plural of tann

Verb

tenner

1. present of tenne

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tenner f

1. indefinite plural of tann