sonor

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sonōrus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [suˈnor]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [soˈnor]

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Adjective

sonor (feminine sonora, masculine plural sonors, feminine plural sonores)

1. sounding, making sound
2. (relational) sound
3. sonorous, loud
4. (linguistics) voiced
5. (derogatory) wordy, pompous, grandiloquent

Derived terms

• banda sonora

Related terms

• sonoritat

Further reading

• “sonor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sonor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “sonor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sonor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

sonor

1. sonorant

References

• “sonor”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Ido

Verb

sonor

1. future infinitive of sonar

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch sonoor (“sonorous, sonoral”), from French [Term?], from Latin sonor (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsonor/ [ˈso.nɔr]
• Rhymes: -onor
• Syllabification: so‧nor

Adjective

sonor (comparative lebih sonor, superlative paling sonor)

1. sonorous, sonoral

   Synonyms: merdu, nyaring

Further reading

• “sonor”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔ.nɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔː.nor]

Etymology 1

From the verb sonō (“I make a noise, I resound”) +‎ -or (suffix creating deverbal nouns).

Noun

sonor m (genitive sonōris); third declension

1. (poetic) sound

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sonor	sonōrēs
genitive	sonōris	sonōrum
dative	sonōrī	sonōribus
accusative	sonōrem	sonōrēs
ablative	sonōre	sonōribus
vocative	sonor	sonōrēs

Related terms

• sonō
• sonorus
• sonus

Etymology 2

Verb

sonor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of sonō

References

• “sonor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sonor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French sonore, from Latin sonus (“sound”).

Adjective

sonor (neuter singular sonort, definite singular and plural sonore)

1. sonorous

Synonyms

• klangfull
• velklingende

References

• “sonor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sonor” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French sonore, from Latin sonus (“sound”).

Adjective

sonor (neuter sonort, definite singular and plural sonore, comparative sonorare, indefinite superlative sonorast, definite superlative sonoraste)

1. sonorous

Synonyms

• klangfull
• velklingande

References

• “sonor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sonore, from Latin sonorus.

Adjective

sonor m or n (feminine singular sonoră, masculine plural sonori, feminine/neuter plural sonore)

1. sonorous

Declension

Declension of sonor

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	sonor		sonoră		sonori	sonore
	definite	sonorul		sonora		sonorii	sonorele
genitive- dative	indefinite	sonor		sonore		sonori	sonore
	definite	sonorului		sonorei		sonorilor	sonorelor

Swedish

Adjective

sonor (not comparable)

1. sonorous

Declension

Inflection of sonor

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	sonor	—	—
neuter singular	sonort	—	—
plural	sonora	—	—
masculine plural2	sonore	—	—
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	sonore	—	—
all	sonora	—	—

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

References

• sonor in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sonor in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sonor in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)