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Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
absonus (feminine absona, neuter absonum); first/second-declension adjective
- harsh, discordant
- unsuitable, incongruous, incompatible with (coupled with dative or a/ab + ablative)
- Synonym: dissonus
- Antonyms: cōnsonus, conveniēns, congruēns
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “absonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “absonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- absonus 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)
- absonus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti