sonnet

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Italian sonetto

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɒnɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɒnɪt

Noun

sonnet (plural sonnets)

1. A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.

Translations

sonnet, a type of poem

• Afrikaans: sonnet (af)
• Arabic: سونيت (ar)
• Bulgarian: сонет (bg) (sonet)
• Catalan: sonet (ca)
• Chinese: 十四行诗 (cmn)
• Czech: sonet (cs)
• Danish: sonet (da)
• Dutch: sonnet (nl) n, klinkdicht (nl) n
• Esperanto: soneto (eo)
• Estonian: sonett (et)
• Finnish: sonetti (fi)
• French: sonnet (fr) m
• Galician: soneto (gl)
• Georgian: სონეტი (ka) (soneti)
• German: Sonett (de)
• Greek: σονέτο (el) (sonéto)
• Hungarian: szonett (hu)
• Ido: soneto (io)
• Interlingue: sonetto (ie)
• Italian: sonetto (it) m

• Japanese: ソネット (ja) (sonetto)
• Latvian: sonets (lv)
• Macedonian: сонет (mk) (sonét) m
• Norman: sonnet
• Norwegian: sonett (no)

  Nynorsk: sonett (nn)

• Persian: متن ادبی (fa) (matnê adabi)
• Polish: sonet (pl)
• Portuguese: soneto (pt) m
• Romanian: sonet (ro) n
• Russian: сонет (ru) (sonet)
• Serbo-Croatian: sonet (sh)
• Slovene: sonet (sl)
• Spanish: soneto (es) m
• Swedish: sonett (sv)
• Turkish: sone (tr)
• Ukrainian: сонет (uk) (sonet)
• Volapük: poedot degfolliänik (vo)
• Welsh: soned (cy)

See also

• poem
• English sonnet
• Italian sonnet
• quatorzain

Verb

sonnet (third-person singular simple present sonnets, present participle sonneting, simple past and past participle sonneted)

1. (intransitive) To compose sonnets.
   • Milton

     Strains that come almost to sonneting.

Anagrams

• nonets
• tenons
• tonnes

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

Italian sonetto or Provençal sonet.

Noun

sonnet n (plural sonnetten, ^??? please provide the diminutive!)

1. (poetry) sonnet

Anagrams

• snoten

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Italian sonetto

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɔ.nɛ/

Noun

sonnet m (plural sonnets)

1. sonnet

Anagrams

• entons
• tenons
• tonnes, tonnés

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German

Verb

sonnet

1. Second-person plural subjunctive I of sonnen.