sondar

Ido

Etymology

Borrowing from English sound, French sonder, German sondieren, Italian sondare, Russian зонди́ровать (zondírovatʹ) and Spanish sondear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔnˈdar/

Verb

sondar (present tense sondas, past tense sondis, future tense sondos, imperative sondez, conditional sondus)

1. (intransitive) to take soundings in
2. (transitive, intransitive, general) to sound: ascertain the depth of, explore the nature of the bottom
3. (transitive, general) to fathom
4. (transitive, figuratively) to try, test
5. (intransitive, medicine) to probe (with a probe), to sound (with a sound)
6. (intransitive, mining) to make a boring

Conjugation

    Conjugation of sondar

		present		past		future
infinitive		sondar		sondir		sondor
tense		sondas		sondis		sondos
conditional		sondus
imperative		sondez
adjective active participle		sondanta		sondinta		sondonta
adverbial active participle		sondante		sondinte		sondonte
nominal active participle	singular	sondanto		sondinto		sondonto
	plural	sondanti		sondinti		sondonti
adjective passive participle		sondata		sondita		sondota
adverbial passive participle		sondate		sondite		sondote
nominal passive participle	singular	sondato		sondito		sondoto
	plural	sondati		sonditi		sondoti

Derived terms

• sondilo (“soundingn line, soundingn lead; probe; sound”)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

sondar m

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of sonde

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Portuguese

Etymology

sonda +‎ -ar

Verb

1. to investigate inconspicuously
2. to probe (to insert a probe into)
3. to fathom (to measure the depth of a body of water)

Derived terms

• sonda

References

• sondar, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa com Acordo Ortográfico

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Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin subundare, sub + undare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sonˈdaɾ/ [sõn̪ˈd̪aɾ]

Verb

1. to sound
2. (transitive) to catheterize

Related terms

• sondaje

Further reading

• “sondar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014