sonido

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish sonido, a semi-learned descendant of Latin sonitus.

Noun

sonido m (Hebrew spelling סונידו)

1. sound

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin sonitum, either as a semi-learned borrowing or via Spanish sonido.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /soˈni.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /soˈni.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /soˈni.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /suˈni.du/ [suˈni.ðu]

Noun

sonido m (plural sonidos) (uncommon)

1. a sound, noise

   Synonyms: som, soído (archaic)

2. crash, smash

Further reading

• “sonido”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “sonido”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “sonido”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2025
• “sonido”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “sonido”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish sonido, a semi-learned descendant of Latin sonitus, by analogy with tronido, ruido, chirrido, rugido and other words with the suffix -ido.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soˈnido/ [soˈni.ð̞o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ido
• Syllabification: so‧ni‧do

Noun

sonido m (plural sonidos)

1. sound, noise

   Synonym: sueno

2. tone

   Synonyms: tono, son

Derived terms

• banda de sonido
• barrera del sonido
• boca de sonido
• intensidad del sonido
• sonidista
• tarjeta de sonido
• velocidad del sonido

Related terms

• acústico
• son
• sonajera
• sonar
• sónico
• sonoro

Further reading

• “sonido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024