sonorific
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin sonor (“a sound”), -oris + facere (“to make”). See sonorous.
Adjective edit
sonorific (comparative more sonorific, superlative most sonorific)
- Producing sound.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
- sonorific quality
References edit
“sonorific”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.