sonante

Esperanto

Adverb

sonante

1. present adverbial active participle of soni

Ido

Adverb

sonante

1. adverbial present active participle of sonar

Italian

Adjective

sonante m or f by sense (plural sonanti)

1. resounding, sounding

Related terms

• denaro sonante
• moneta sonante
• suonare

Anagrams

• annesto, annestò, santone, sentano

Latin

Participle

sonante

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of sonāns

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sonantem. Doublet of soante.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /soˈnɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /suˈnɐ̃.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: so‧nan‧te

Adjective

sonante m or f (plural sonantes)

1. sonant, sounding

   Synonym: sonoro

Further reading

• “sonante”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “sonante”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *swonh₂éyeti

Proto-Italic *swonaō

Latin sonō

Old Spanish sonar

Spanish sonar

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -ns

Latin -antem

Spanish -ante

Spanish sonante

From sonar + -ante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soˈnante/ [soˈnãn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: so‧nan‧te

Adjective

sonante m or f (masculine and feminine plural sonantes)

1. sonant, sounding
2. (phonetics) voiced

Derived terms

• altisonante
• contante y sonante

Further reading

• “sonante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025