Examples: in New England they call sodas tonics
Examples: a tonic reflex tonic muscle contraction
Examples: Chinese is a tonal language
Examples: a tonic syllables carries the main stress in a word
Examples: tonic harmony
Examples: the bracing mountain air
tonic (English)└── τονικός (Ancient Greek (to 1453)) └── τόνος (Ancient Greek (to 1453)) └── τείνω (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
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