sonnet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɒnɪt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• 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

verse form consisting of fourteen lines

• Afrikaans: sonnet
• Arabic: سونيت‎
• Bulgarian: соне́т m (sonét)
• Catalan: sonet
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十四行詩 (zh), 十四行诗 (zh) (shísìhángshī), 商籟體 (zh), 商籁体 (zh) (shānglàitǐ)

• Czech: sonet
• Danish: sonet
• Dutch: sonnet (nl) n, klinkdicht (nl) n
• Esperanto: soneto
• Estonian: sonett
• Finnish: sonetti (fi)
• French: sonnet (fr) m
• Galician: soneto
• Georgian: სონეტი (soneṭi)
• German: Sonett (de) n
• Greek: σονέτο (el) n (sonéto)
• Hungarian: szonett (hu)
• Ido: soneto (io)
• Interlingue: sonetto
• Italian: sonetto (it) m

• Japanese: ソネット (sonetto)
• Latvian: sonets
• Macedonian: соне́т m (sonét)
• Norman: sonnet
• Norwegian: sonett

  Nynorsk: sonett

• Persian: متن ادبی‎ (matn-e adabi)
• Polish: sonet (pl) m
• Portuguese: soneto (pt) m
• Romanian: sonet (ro) n
• Russian: соне́т (ru) m (sonét)
• Serbo-Croatian: sonet (sh)
• Slovene: sonet (sl)
• Spanish: soneto m
• Swedish: sonett (sv)
• Tagalog: soneto, dalitlit
• Turkish: sone (tr)
• Ukrainian: соне́т m (sonét)
• Volapük: poedot degfolliänik
• Welsh: soned

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.
   • 1649, [John] Milton, [Eikonoklastes]  […], London: Printed by Matthew Simmons,  […], OCLC 1044608640:

     strains that come almost to sonneting

2. (transitive) To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about.

Anagrams

• Neston, non est, nonets, senton, stonen, tennos, tenons, tenson, tonnes

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔˈnɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: son‧net
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

sonnet n (plural sonnetten, diminutive sonnetje n)

1. sonnet

   Synonym: klinkdicht

Derived terms

• meestersonnet
• Shakespearesonnet
• sonnettenbakker
• sonnettencyclus
• sonnettenkrans

Anagrams

• snoten

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French

Etymology

From Middle French sonnet, borrowed from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.nɛ/

Noun

sonnet m (plural sonnets)

1. sonnet

Further reading

• “sonnet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• entons, tenons, tonnes, tonnés

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German

Verb

sonnet

1. Second-person plural subjunctive I of sonnen.