sons

See also: Sons and søns

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʌnz/

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• Rhymes: -ʌnz
• Homophone: suns

Noun

sons

1. plural of son

Anagrams

• -sson

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɔns]

Etymology 1

Noun

sons

1. plural of so (“sound”)

Etymology 2

Noun

sons

1. plural of son (“sleep”)
2. (Tarragon, Mallorca, Menorca) plural of so (“sleep”)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ̃/

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Noun

sons m

1. plural of son

Galician

Noun

sons

1. plural of son

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sonts (see *som), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁s-ónt-s, the present participle of *h₁es- (whence also sum). Due to vowel reduction, it appears as -sēns in compounded forms of sum. Thus "he who is it", "the real person", "the guilty one". Compare English sooth for an exact cognate, and sin for the same semantic development.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsõːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔns]

Adjective

sōns (genitive sontis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. guilty
2. criminal

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	sōns			sontēs	sontia
genitive	sontis			sontium sontum
dative	sontī			sontibus
accusative	sontem	sōns		sontīs sontēs	sontia
ablative	sontī sonte	sontī		sontibus
vocative	sōns			sontēs	sontia

Noun

sōns m (genitive sontis); third declension

1. criminal

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	sōns	sontēs
genitive	sontis	sontium sontum
dative	sontī	sontibus
accusative	sontem	sontēs sontīs
ablative	sonte	sontibus
vocative	sōns	sontēs

Derived terms

• īnsōns
• sonticus

References

• “sons”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sons”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "sons", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “sons”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle French

Noun

sons

1. plural of son

Portuguese

Noun

sons m

1. plural of som

Swedish

Noun

sons

1. indefinite genitive singular of son
2. definite genitive singular of so

Anagrams

• snos

Volapük

Noun

sons

1. nominative plural of son
2. vocative plural of son