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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French sonde.
Pronunciation
Noun
sonde (plural sondes)
- (medicine) Probe; sound.
- (physical sciences) Any of various devices for testing physical conditions, often for remote or underwater locations.
Derived terms
Translations
probe
- Bulgarian: сонда (bg) f (sonda)
- Chinese:
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- Finnish: koetin (fi), sondi (fi)
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device
- Bulgarian: сензор (bg) m (senzor)
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- Finnish: sondi (fi), luotain (fi)
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Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch zonde.
Pronunciation
Noun
sonde (plural sondes, diminutive sondetjie)
- sin
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Middle High German sunne, from Old High German sunna. Cognate with German Sonne, English sun.
Noun
sonde f
- (Tredici Comuni) sun
References
Danish
Etymology
From French sonde.
Noun
sonde
- probe
- medical device to feed a person directly into the stomach
Declension
Related terms
Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French sonde.
Pronunciation
Noun
sonde m or f (plural sondes, diminutive sondetje n)
- probe
- feeding tube (medical equipment)
Derived terms
Descendants
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle French, from Old French sonde (“sounding line”), from Old English sund- (“sounding”), as in sundġierd (“sounding-rod”), sundlīne (“sounding-line, lead”), sundrāp (“sounding-rope, lead”), from sund (“ocean, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *sundą (“a swim, body of water, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, swim”). Cognate with Old Norse sund (“swimming; strait, sound”). More at sound.
Noun
sonde f (plural sondes)
- (medicine) probe; sound
- any of various devices for testing physical conditions, often for remote or underwater locations
- (astronomy) probe
- sound (measurement to establish the depth of water)
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Verb
sonde
- inflection of sonder:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
Anagrams
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch sonde, from French sonde, from Middle French , from Old French sonde (“sounding line”), from Old English sund- (“sounding”), from sund (“ocean, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *sundą (“a swim, body of water, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, swim”).
Pronunciation 1
Noun
sondé (first-person possessive sondeku, second-person possessive sondemu, third-person possessive sondenya)
- (astronomy, meteorology) probe
- (medicine) probe; sound.
- explorer: any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
Pronunciation 2
Noun
sondê (first-person possessive sondeku, second-person possessive sondemu, third-person possessive sondenya)
- (medicine) feeding tube.
- Synonym: selang makanan
Further reading
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
sonde f pl
- plural of sonda
Anagrams
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch sunda, from Proto-Germanic *sundijō.
Noun
sonde f
- sin, transgression
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
Middle English
Noun
sonde
- Alternative form of sande
Norman
Etymology
From Old French sonde (“sounding line”), from Old English .
Noun
sonde f (plural sondes)
- (Jersey, nautical) sounding line
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from French sonde.
Noun
sonde m (definite singular sonden, indefinite plural sonder, definite plural sondene)
- a probe (used to explore, investigate or measure)
Derived terms
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from French sonde.
Noun
sonde m (definite singular sonden, indefinite plural sondar, definite plural sondane)
- a probe (used to explore, investigate or measure)
Derived terms
References
Portuguese
Verb
sonde
- inflection of sondar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
sonde
- inflection of sondar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
From English Sunday, equivalent to son + dei.
Noun
sonde
- Sunday
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