English → Latin
“intone” in Latin
īnsonōto make a sound or noise in or on; sound, sound loudly, resound, roarcanticumsong; passage in a comedy chanted or sung; sing-song voicePhaedrusPhaedrus (an Athenian aristocrat, friend of Socrates); Phaedrus (a Latin fabulist)modulorto measure; to regulate; to beat time
The English word intone itself goes back to Latin tonō, through intonō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
intone
graviter sonare (as Pope uses “intone”); perhaps ultimarum syllabarum sono indulgere (priorum syllabarum, Quint., 11, 3, 33); or insonare (e.g., canticum, Phaedrus). To intone the service, *preces publicas cantu illo ecclesiastico insonare or modulari.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for intone?
- The usual Latin words for “intone” are īnsonō, canticum, Phaedrus; also modulor. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.