assonate

English

Etymology

From Latin assonō, from ad (“to, towards”) + sonō (“I sound, resound”).

Verb

assonate (third-person singular simple present assonates, present participle assonating, simple past and past participle assonated)

  1. To correspond in (particularly vowel) sounds.
    Part of the magic of her poetry was her ability to have her words assonate in the most propitious places.

Anagrams

Italian

Verb

assonate

  1. present participle of assonare

Verb

assonate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of assonare
  2. second-person plural imperative of assonare
  3. feminine plural of assonato
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