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/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• 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.

Derived terms

• Elizabethan sonnet
• Petrarchan sonnet
• Shakespearean sonnet
• Spenserian sonnet

Translations

verse form consisting of fourteen lines

• Afrikaans: sonnet
• Arabic: سونيت
• Armenian: սոնետ (hy) (sonet)
• Asturian: sonetu m
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Bashkir: сонет (sonet)
• Breton: sonerez f
• Bulgarian: соне́т m (sonét)
• Catalan: sonet (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Corsican: sunettu m, sonettu m
• Czech: sonet m
• Danish: sonet c
• Dutch: sonnet (nl) n, klinkdicht (nl) n
• Emilian: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: soneto
• Estonian: sonett
• Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sonetti (fi)
• French: sonnet (fr) m
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: soneto
• Gallo: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: სონეტი (soneṭi)
• German: Sonett (de) n
• Greek: σονέτο (el) n (sonéto)
• Hebrew: סוֹנָטָה (he) f (sonáta), שִׁיר זָהָב m (shir zaháv)
• Hungarian: szonett (hu)
• Hunsrik: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: sonnetta f
• Ido: soneto (io)
• Irish: soinéad m
• Italian: sonetto (it) m
• Japanese: ソネット (sonetto)
• Kazakh: сонет (sonet)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 소네트 (soneteu)
• Kyrgyz: сонет (sonet)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: sonets
• Leonese: please add this translation if you can
• Ligurian: sonétto m
• Limburgish: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: sonètas m
• Lombard: sonètt m
• Macedonian: соне́т m (sonét)
• Malayalam: ഗീതകം (ml) (gītakaṁ)
• Manx: please add this translation if you can
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Neapolitan: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: sonnet
• Norwegian: sonett

  Nynorsk: sonett

• Occitan: sonet m
• Persian: متن ادبی (matn-e adabi)
• Picard: please add this translation if you can
• Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: sonet (pl) m
• Portuguese: soneto (pt) m
• Romagnol: sunèt m
• Romanian: sonet (ro) n
• Russian: соне́т (ru) m (sonét)
• Scots: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian: sonet (sh)
• Sicilian: sunettu m
• Slovene: sonet (sl)
• Spanish: soneto (es) m
• Swedish: sonett (sv)
• Tagalog: soneto, dalitlit
• Tarantino: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ซอนเน็ต
• Turkish: sone (tr)
• Ukrainian: соне́т m (sonét)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: sonet (uz)
• Volapük: poedot degfolliänik
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: soned

See also

• poem
• caudate sonnet
• curtal sonnet
• English sonnet
• Italian sonnet
• Scottish sonnet
• quatorzain

Verb

sonnet (third-person singular simple present sonnets, present participle sonneting or sonnetting, simple past and past participle sonneted or sonnetted)

1. (intransitive) To compose sonnets.
   • 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:

     strains that come almost to sonneting

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

Anagrams

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

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:

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• Hyphenation: son‧net
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

sonnet n (plural sonnetten, diminutive sonnetje n)

1. sonnet

   Synonym: klinkdicht

Derived terms

• meestersonnet
• Shakespearesonnet
• sonnettenbakker
• sonnettencyclus
• sonnettenkrans

References

• “sonnet” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Anagrams

• snoten

French

Etymology

Inherited 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/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Switzerland):

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Noun

sonnet m (plural sonnets)

1. sonnet

Further reading

• “sonnet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• entons, tenons, tonnes, tonnés

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

sonnet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of sonnen