sonore

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sonōrus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.nɔʁ/

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Adjective

sonore (plural sonores)

1. resonant, echoing
2. resounding (slap, kiss etc.)
3. sound(-)
4. (phonetics) voiced

   Synonym: voisé

   Antonym: sourd

Derived terms

• bande sonore
• livre sonore
• pollution sonore
• volume sonore

Noun

sonore m (plural sonores)

1. (journalism, television) soundbite

Further reading

• “sonore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /soˈnɔ.re/
• Rhymes: -ɔre
• Hyphenation: so‧nò‧re

Adjective

sonore

1. feminine plural of sonoro

Anagrams

• renoso, rosone, sonerò

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɔˈnoː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [soˈnɔː.re]

Noun

sonōre

1. ablative singular of sonor

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɔˈnoː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [soˈnɔː.re]

Adjective

sonōre

1. vocative masculine singular of sonōrus

Etymology 3

From sonōrus (“sounding, resounding”) +‎ -ē.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɔˈnoː.reː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [soˈnɔː.re]

Adverb

sonōrē (comparative sonōrius, superlative sonōrissimē)

1. loudly, noisily, resoundingly; sonorously

References

• “sonore”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sonore”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

sonore

1. definite singular of sonor
2. plural of sonor

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

sonore

1. definite singular of sonor
2. plural of sonor