sonnet
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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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NounEdit
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.
TranslationsEdit
verse form consisting of fourteen lines
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VerbEdit
sonnet (third-person singular simple present sonnets, present participle sonneting, simple past and past participle sonneted)
- (intransitive) To compose sonnets.
- 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [EIKONOKLASTES] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], OCLC 1044608640:
- strains that come almost to sonneting
- (transitive) To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about.
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EtymologyEdit
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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NounEdit
sonnet n (plural sonnetten, diminutive sonnetje n)
- sonnet
- Synonym: klinkdicht
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ReferencesEdit
- “sonnet” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
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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NounEdit
sonnet m (plural sonnets)
Further readingEdit
- “sonnet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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