thunder

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
2. (countable, uncountable) A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
3. (countable, uncountable) An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
5. (countable, uncountable) Synonym of thunder word.

Verb

1. (impersonal) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
2. (intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.
3. (ergative) To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
4. (intransitive, transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
5. To produce something with incredible power.

Concepts

tonnerre

🌩️

tonner

🌩️

retentir

💍

gronder

tonitruer

🌩️

foudre

fracas

retenir

rugir

grondement

ronronnement

bôme

💥

déblatérer

ciel

tremblement

oisiveté

coup de tonnerre

Synonymes

roar

rumble

boom

💥

sound

🔉

lightning

thunderbolt

rattle

thundering

clatter

thunderclap

roll

resound

hell dust

peal

thunderstorm

skag

scream

😱

howl

roaring

nose drops

smack

ring out

scag

shout

echo

yell

bellow

crash

heard

rumbling

reverberate

bluster

make noise

explode

big H

trumpet

🎺

beat

snarl

knock

iron

buzz

shriek

hammer

🔨

mine

fulminate

noise

bawl

noisy

earful

break out

Traductions

trueno

🌩️

Donner

🌩️

tuono

🌩️

donder

🌩️

donnern

🌩️

tronar

🌩️

tuonare

🌩️

trovão

🌩️

trovejar

🌩️

donderen

🌩️

tro

🌩️

βροντή

bulderen

🌩️

daveren

💥

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈθʌndə/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: thunder

Hérité de ancien anglais: þunor

Appartenant à frison occidental: tonger

Appartenant à néerlandais: donder

Appartenant à allemand: Donner

Appartenant à vieux norrois: Þórr

Appartenant à anglais: Thor

Appartenant à danois: torden

Appartenant à norvégien nynorsk: tore

Appartenant à persan: تندر

Appartenant à latin: tonō

Appartenant à grec ancien: στένω

Appartenant à irlandais: torann

Appartenant à gallois: taran

In summary

From Middle English thunder, thonder, thundre, thonre, thunnere, þunre, from Old English þunor (“thunder”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunr, from Proto-Germanic *þunraz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ten-, *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”).
Compare astound, astonish, stun. Germanic cognates include West Frisian tonger, Dutch donder, German Donner, Old Norse Þórr (English Thor), Danish torden, Norwegian Nynorsk tore. Other cognates include Persian تندر (tondar), Latin tonō, detonō, Ancient Greek στένω (sténō), στενάζω (stenázō), στόνος (stónos), Στέντωρ (Sténtōr), Irish torann, Welsh taran, Gaulish Taranis. Doublet of donner, Thunor, and Thor.