sonus

See also: Sonus

Esperanto

Verb

sonus

  1. conditional of soni

Ido

Verb

sonus

  1. conditional of sonar

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *swónh₂os, from the root *swenh₂- (to sound). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *swanaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

sonus m (genitive sonī or sonūs); variously declined, second declension, fourth declension

  1. sound, noise; pitch; speech
  2. (figuratively) tone, character, style
  3. (figuratively) voice, tongue
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.119:
      Nunc mihi mīlle sonōs
      Now [grant] to me a thousand voices
      Now I could wish for a thousand tongues

Declension

Second-declension noun or fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sonus sonī
sonūs
genitive sonī
sonūs
sonōrum
sonuum
dative sonō
sonuī
sonīs
sonibus
accusative sonum sonōs
sonūs
ablative sonō
sonū
sonīs
sonibus
vocative sone
sonus
sonī
sonūs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Aromanian: son
  • Catalan: so
  • Friulian: sun
  • Galician: son
  • Italian: suono, sono
  • Occitan: son
  • Old English: sōn
  • Old French: son
    • French: son
    • Middle English: sowne, sownde
  • Old Irish: son
  • Portuguese: som
  • Romanian: sun
  • Romansch: sun
  • Sardinian: sonu
  • Sicilian: sonu
  • Spanish: son, sueno
  • Welsh: sôn

References

  • sonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "sonus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • sonus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • sonus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Middle Irish

Etymology

From sona (prosperous, fortunate, lucky) +‎ -us.

Noun

sonus m

  1. good fortune, prosperity, happiness

Descendants

Mutation

Mutation of sonus
radical lenition nasalization
sonus ṡonus unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Volapük

Noun

sonus

  1. predicative plural of son