sons

See also: søns

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʌnz/

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• Homophone: suns

Noun

sons

1. plural of son

Anagrams

• -sson

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Catalan

Noun

sons

1. plural of só

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ̃/

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Noun

sons m

1. plural of son

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sonts, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁s-ónt-s, the present participle of *h₁es- (whence also sum). Due to vowel reduction, it appears as -sēns in compounded forms of sum. Thus "he who is it", "the real person", "the guilty one". Compare English sooth for an exact cognate, and sin for the same semantic development.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sons/, [s̠õːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sons/, [sɔns]

Adjective

sōns (genitive sontis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. guilty
2. criminal

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	sōns			sontēs	sontia
Genitive	sontis			sontium
Dative	sontī			sontibus
Accusative	sontem	sōns		sontēs	sontia
Ablative	sontī			sontibus
Vocative	sōns			sontēs	sontia

Noun

sōns m (genitive sontis); third declension

1. criminal

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sōns	sontēs
Genitive	sontis	sontium
Dative	sontī	sontibus
Accusative	sontem	sontēs sontīs
Ablative	sonte	sontibus
Vocative	sōns	sontēs

Derived terms

• īnsōns
• sonticus

Descendants

• Portuguese: sonte
• Spanish: sonte

References

• “sons”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sons”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sons in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sons in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Portuguese

Noun

sons m

1. plural of som

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Swedish

Noun

sons

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite genitive singular of son
2. (deprecated template usage) definite genitive singular of so

Anagrams

• snos

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Volapük

Noun

sons

1. nominative plural of son
2. vocative plural of son (i.e., o sons!)