sonnet

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/[1]

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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.

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: please add this translation if you can 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: please add this translation if you can 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: please add this translation if you can Limburgish: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: sonetas Lombard: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: соне́т m (sonét) Malayalam: ഗീതകം (ml) (gītakaṃ) 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: please add this translation if you can 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 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
• 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 1044608640:

     strains that come almost to sonneting

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

References

1. Meredith, L. P. (1872), “Sonnet”, in Every-Day Errors of Speech, Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott & Co., page 42.

Anagrams

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

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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

• IPA^(key): /sɔˈnɛt/

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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

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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

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.nɛ/

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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

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German

Pronunciation

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Verb

sonnet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of sonnen