sonnet

Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).

• IPA^(key): /sɒnɪt/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɒnɪt

sonnet (plural sonnets)

1. 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.

• poem
• English sonnet
• Italian sonnet
• quatorzain

sonnet (third-person singular simple present sonnets, present participle sonneting, simple past and past participle sonneted)

1. (intransitive) To compose sonnets.
   • Milton

     strains that come almost to sonneting

2. (transitive) To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about.

• non est, nonets, senton, stonen, tennos, tenons, tenson, tonnes

Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).

• IPA^(key): /sɔˈnɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: son‧net
• Rhymes: -ɛt

sonnet n (plural sonnetten, diminutive sonnetje n)

1. sonnet

   Synonym: klinkdicht

• Shakespearesonnet
• sonnettenbakker
• sonnettencyclus

• snoten

From Middle French sonnet, borrowed from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.nɛ/

sonnet m (plural sonnets)

1. sonnet

• “sonnet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• entons, tenons, tonnes, tonnés

sonnet

1. Second-person plural subjunctive I of sonnen.