sonus

See also: Sonus

Esperanto

Verb

sonus

1. conditional of soni

Ido

Verb

sonus

1. conditional of sonar

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *swónh₂os, from the root *swenh₂- (“to sound”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *swanaz.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.nus/, [ˈs̠ɔnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.nus/, [ˈsɔːnus]

Noun

sonus m (genitive sonī); second declension

1. sound, noise; pitch; speech
2. (figuratively) tone, character, style
3. (figuratively) voice, tongue
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.119:

     Nunc mihi mīlle sonōs

     Now [grant] to me a thousand voices
     Now I could wish for a thousand tongues

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sonus	sonī
Genitive	sonī	sonōrum
Dative	sonō	sonīs
Accusative	sonum	sonōs
Ablative	sonō	sonīs
Vocative	sone	sonī

Derived terms

• sonipēs
• sonīvius

 

Related terms

• circumsonus
• sonitus
• sonitō
• sonor
• sonābilis
• sonāns
• sonāx
• sonō
• sonōritās
• sonōrus
• sonōrē

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: son
• Catalan: so
• Friulian: sun
• Galician: son
• Italian: suono
  • → Greek: σόνο (sóno)
• Occitan: son
• Old English: sōn
• Old French: son
  • French: son
  • → Middle English: sowne, sownde
    • English: sound
      • → Cebuano: sawon
• Old Irish: son
• Portuguese: som
• Romanian: sun
• Romansch: sun
• Sardinian: sonu
• Sicilian: sonu
• Spanish: son, sueno
• Welsh: sôn

References

• “sonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sonus 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)
• sonus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sonus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Middle Irish

Etymology

sona (“prosperous, fortunate, lucky”) +‎ -us

Noun

sonus m

1. good fortune, prosperity, happiness

Descendants

• Irish: sonas
• Manx: sonnys
• Scottish Gaelic: sonas

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
sonus	ṡonus	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “sonus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Volapük

Noun

sonus

1. predicative plural of son