English → Latin
“tune” in Latin
nervusa cord, string, thong or wire; the leather with which shields were covered; a fibermodusmeasure; bound, limit, end; manner (of doing or being arranged), way (of doing or being arranged), methodmodulusa small measure or interval; a module; a water metercanōto sing, recite, play; to sound, play, blow (a trumpet), especially a military call; to foretell, predict, prophesycanticumsong; passage in a comedy chanted or sung; sing-song voicecōnsonusharmonious, sounding together, suitableabsonusharsh, discordant; unsuitable, incongruous, incompatible with (coupled with dative or a/ab + ablative)dissonusdissonant, discordant, confused; disagreeing, different; jarringabsonōto be discordant (to have a harsh or unpleasant sound); to be incongruous, to disagree withdissonōto disagree in sound, to be dissonant or disharmonious; to be in disharmony, disagree, differ
The English word tune itself goes back to Latin tonus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
tune s.
Harmony, sonorum concentus: nervorum or vocum concordia. In tune, consonus: out of tune, absonus (not of the right tone, that sounds badly); dissonus (that does not agree in tone, not in harmony; opposed to consonans): to be out of tune, absonum esse (to sound ill; ☞ in later writers, absonare); dissonare; discrepare (not to harmonize).
An air, modi: moduli: cantus, -ūs: canticum.
tune v.
fides ita contendere nervis (or, with by circumlocution, numeris), ut concentum servare possint (Vid: Cic., Fin. 4, 27, 75): to tune a number of instruments, *accommodare instrumentum musicum ad aliud; *efficere ut aliquid cum aliqua re concinat; *efficere ut res concentum servant.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for tune?
- The usual Latin words for “tune” are nervus, modus, modulus; also canō, canticum, cōnsonus. 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.