sonnet

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɒnɪt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒnɪt

Noun

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.

Verb

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.

Anagrams

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔˈnɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: son‧net
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

sonnet n (plural sonnetten, diminutive sonnetje n)

1. (poetry) sonnet

Anagrams

• snoten

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.nɛ/

Noun

sonnet m (plural sonnets)

1. sonnet

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• entons, tenons, tonnes, tonnés

Verb

sonnet

1. Second-person plural subjunctive I of sonnen.