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): /ˈsɒnɪt/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnɪt/[1]

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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
• Scottish sonnet
• quatorzain

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

1. (intransitive) To compose sonnets.
   • 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:

     strains that come almost to sonneting

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

• Neston, 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/

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• Hyphenation: son‧net
• Rhymes: -ɛt

sonnet n (plural sonnetten, diminutive sonnetje n)

1. sonnet

   Synonym: klinkdicht

• meestersonnet
• Shakespearesonnet
• sonnettenbakker
• sonnettencyclus
• sonnettenkrans

• “sonnet” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

• snoten

Inherited 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/

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sonnet m (plural sonnets)

1. sonnet

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

• entons, tenons, tonnes, tonnés

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sonnet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of sonnen