sonor

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sonōrus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

sonor (feminine sonora, masculine plural sonors, feminine plural sonores)

  1. sounding, making sound
  2. (relational) sound
  3. sonorous, loud
  4. (linguistics) voiced
  5. (derogatory) wordy, pompous, grandiloquent

Derived terms

Further reading

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

sonor

  1. sonorant

References

Ido

Verb

sonor

  1. future infinitive of sonar

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From the verb sonō (“I make a noise, I resound”) +‎ -or (suffix creating deverbal nouns).

Noun

sonor m (genitive sonōris); third declension

  1. (poetic) sound
Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sonor sonōrēs
genitive sonōris sonōrum
dative sonōrī sonōribus
accusative sonōrem sonōrēs
ablative sonōre sonōribus
vocative sonor sonōrēs

Etymology 2

Verb

sonor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of sonō

References

  • “sonor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sonor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French sonore, from Latin sonus (“sound”).

Adjective

sonor (neuter singular sonort, definite singular and plural sonore)

  1. sonorous

Synonyms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French sonore, from Latin sonus (“sound”).

Adjective

sonor (neuter sonort, definite singular and plural sonore, comparative sonorare, indefinite superlative sonorast, definite superlative sonoraste)

  1. sonorous

Synonyms

References

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sonore, from Latin sonorus.

Adjective

sonor m or n (feminine singular sonoră, masculine plural sonori, feminine and neuter plural sonore)

  1. sonorous

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite sonor sonoră sonori sonore
definite sonorul sonora sonorii sonorele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite sonor sonore sonori sonore
definite sonorului sonorei sonorilor sonorelor

Swedish

Adjective

sonor (not (comparable))

  1. sonorous

Declension

Inflection of sonor
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular sonor — —
neuter singular sonort — —
plural sonora — —
masculine plural2 sonore — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 sonore — —
all sonora — —

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

References

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