sonda

See also: Sonda and sondá

Catalan

Etymology

From Middle French sonde (“sounding line”), 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.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈson.də/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈson.da/

Noun

sonda f (plural sondes)

1. sounder
2. probe

Derived terms

• sondar
• sondejar

Further reading

• “sonda” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sonda” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sonda” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sonda” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsonda]

Noun

sonda f

1. probe (a device, or part of a device, used to explore, investigate or measure)
2. probe (an investigation or inquiry)

Derived terms

• kosmická sonda f

Related terms

• sondovat
• sondáž

Further reading

• sonda in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• sonda in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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French

Verb

sonda

1. third-person singular past historic of sonder

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Italian

Etymology

From French sonde.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -onda

Noun

sonda f (plural sonde)

1. sonde, probe
2. drill

Derived terms

• radiosonda, telesonda

Verb

sonda

1. third-person singular present indicative of sondare
2. second-person singular imperative of sondare

Anagrams

• snoda

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Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsun.dɒ/

Noun

sonda f (plural sondas)

1. (nautical) sounding, depth

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Portuguese

Etymology

From French sonde.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsõ.dɐ/
• Hyphenation: son‧da

Noun

sonda f (plural sondas)

1. probe (device or craft used for exploration)
2. sound (long, thin probe for sounding body)
3. a rope or rod used to fathom bodies of water

Verb

sonda

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of sondar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of sondar

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) somda
• (Puter) sanda

Etymology

From Latin diēs Sabbati (“day of the Sabbath”) (possibly through a Vulgar Latin *sambati diēs < *Sabbati diēs; compare French samedi). Alternatively from sabbata, plural of sabbatum. Compare Ladin sabeda, Friulian sabide, Dalmatian sabata, Romanian sâmbătă.

Noun

sonda f (plural sondas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) Saturday

Adverb

sonda

1. on Saturday

Related terms

• la sonda

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sȏnda f (Cyrillic spelling со̑нда)

1. a probe (a device, or part of a device, used to explore, investigate or measure)

Declension

Declension of sonda

	singular	plural
nominative	sonda	sonde
genitive	sonde	sonda / sondi
dative	sondi	sondama
accusative	sondu	sonde
vocative	sondo	sonde
locative	sondi	sondama
instrumental	sondom	sondama

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsonda/, [ˈsõn̪d̪a]

Etymology 1

From French sonde.

Noun

sonda f (plural sondas)

1. probe
2. (medicine) catheter, tube

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

sonda

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of sondar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of sondar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of sondar.

Further reading

• “sonda” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.