-tonia


  1. a combining form with the meaning “muscle tension, nerve tension,” as specified by the initial element (hypertonia); used also in the formation of words that denote more generally a personality type or personality disorder (catatonia; somatotonia).

Origin of -tonia

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See tone, -ia

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How to use -tonia in a sentence

  • Ten yards from his hiding-place, in the shade of the jacal, sat his Tonia calmly plaiting a rawhide lariat.

  • Then outside Tonia swung in a grass hammock with her guitar and sang sad canciones de amor .

  • Tonia dropped the lariat, twisted herself around, and curved a lemon-tinted arm over the ranger's shoulder.

  • Tonia dropped the lariat, twisted herself around, and curved a lemon- tinted arm over the ranger's shoulder.

  • Then outside Tonia swung in a grass hammock with her guitar and sang sad /canciones de amor/.