sonitus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of sonō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈso.ni.tus/, [ˈs̠ɔnɪt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈso.ni.tus/, [ˈsɔːnit̪us]
Participle
sonitus (feminine sonita, neuter sonitum); first/second-declension participle
- sounded, resounded
- called (out)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | sonitus | sonita | sonitum | sonitī | sonitae | sonita | |
Genitive | sonitī | sonitae | sonitī | sonitōrum | sonitārum | sonitōrum | |
Dative | sonitō | sonitō | sonitīs | ||||
Accusative | sonitum | sonitam | sonitum | sonitōs | sonitās | sonita | |
Ablative | sonitō | sonitā | sonitō | sonitīs | |||
Vocative | sonite | sonita | sonitum | sonitī | sonitae | sonita |
Noun
sonitus m (genitive sonitūs); fourth declension
- sound
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sonitus | sonitūs |
Genitive | sonitūs | sonituum |
Dative | sonituī | sonitibus |
Accusative | sonitum | sonitūs |
Ablative | sonitū | sonitibus |
Vocative | sonitus | sonitūs |
Related terms
- sonus
Descendants
- Italian: sonito
- Romanian: sunet
- Spanish: sonido
References
- “sonitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sonitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sonitus 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)
- sonitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to speak, utter a sound: vocem mittere (sonitum reddere of things)
- mere words; empty sound: inanis verborum sonitus
- to speak, utter a sound: vocem mittere (sonitum reddere of things)