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
Noun
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
verse form consisting of fourteen lines
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See also
Verb
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.
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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
Noun
sonnet n (plural sonnetten, diminutive sonnetje n)
- sonnet
- Synonym: klinkdicht
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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
Noun
sonnet m (plural sonnets)
Further reading
- “sonnet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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German
Verb
sonnet
- (deprecated template usage) Second-person plural subjunctive I of sonnen.
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