sonnet
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Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).
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sonnet (plural sonnets)
- A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.
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verse form consisting of fourteen lines
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sonnet (third-person singular simple present sonnets, present participle sonneting or sonnetting, simple past and past participle sonneted or sonnetted)
- (intransitive) To compose sonnets.
- 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
- strains that come almost to sonneting
- (transitive) To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about.
References edit
- ^ Meredith, L. P. (1872) “Sonnet”, in Every-Day Errors of Speech[1], Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott & Co., page 42.
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).
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sonnet n (plural sonnetten, diminutive sonnetje n)
- sonnet
- Synonym: klinkdicht
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- “sonnet” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French sonnet, borrowed from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).
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sonnet m (plural sonnets)
Further reading edit
- “sonnet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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