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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sonnet (plural sonnets)
- 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[edit]
verse form consisting of fourteen lines
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Verb[edit]
sonnet (third-person singular simple present sonnets, present participle sonneting, simple past and past participle sonneted)
- (intransitive) To compose sonnets.
- Milton
- strains that come almost to sonneting
- Milton
- (transitive) To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about.
Anagrams[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sonnet n (plural sonnetten, diminutive sonnetje n)
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French sonnet, borrowed from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sonnet m (plural sonnets)
Further reading[edit]
- “sonnet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams[edit]
German[edit]
Verb[edit]
sonnet
- Second-person plural subjunctive I of sonnen.
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- Dutch terms derived from Middle French
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- nl:Poetry
- French terms inherited from Middle French
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