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English
Etymology
From Latin sonus, equivalent to sono- + -ic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
sonic (not comparable)
- Of or relating to sound.
- Having a speed approaching that of the speed of sound in air.
Derived terms
Translations
of or relating to sound
- Arabic: صَوْتِيّ (ṣawtiyy)
- Belarusian: гукавы́ (hukavý)
- Bulgarian: зву́ков (zvúkov)
- Catalan: sònic
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 聲音的/声音的 (zh) (shēngyīn de), 音響的/音响的 (zh) (yīnxiǎng de)
- Czech: zvukový (cs)
- Danish: sonisk
- Dutch: sonisch (nl), geluids- (nl)
- Esperanto: sona
- Finnish: sooninen, ääni- (fi)
- French: sonore (fr), sonique (fr)
- Galician: sónico (gl)
- German: Schall- (de), akustisch (de)
- Hungarian: hang- (hu), hangos (hu)
- Icelandic: hljóð-
- Irish: sonach
- Italian: sonoro (it), sonico (it)
- Japanese: 音の (ja) (おとの, oto no), 音響の (ja) (おんきょうの, onkyō no)
- Korean: 소리의 (ko) (soriui), 음의 (ko) (eumui), 음향의 (ko) (eumhyang'ui)
- Macedonian: звуков (zvukov)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sonisk
- Persian: صوتی (fa) (sowti)
- Polish: dźwiękowy (pl)
- Portuguese: sónico (pt) (Portugal), sônico (pt) (Brazil)
- Russian: звуково́й (ru) (zvukovój)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: зву̑чан
- Roman: zvȗčan (sh)
- Slovak: zvukový
- Slovene: zvočen
- Spanish: sónico (es)
- Swedish: sonisk
- Ukrainian: звукови́й (zvukovýj)
- Uzbek: tovushli (uz)
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having a speed approaching that of the speed of sound in air
See also
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French sonique.
Adjective
sonic m or n (feminine singular sonică, masculine plural sonici, feminine and neuter plural sonice)
- sonic
Declension