resonantia

Forms

resonantia f (genitive resonantiae); first declension^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin resonāns + -ia, the present participle of resonō (“to resound, echo”) with the abstract suffix.^[2][1][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Its only Classical citation is in Vitruvius (5.3.7), where it means the reverberation of sound returned from a surface.^[2][4][3][5]

Semantic evolution

Its single Classical use is the technical one of Vitruvius, an echo or reverberation.^[2][6] Petrarch used it once in verse.^[7] English took it in the 15th century as resonance, partly from Old French and partly from the Latin word,^[8] and Italian has risonanza from it.^[5]

Timeline

• c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of the reverberation of sound.^[2][4][9]
• mid-15th century – English borrows it as resonance in acoustics, partly through Old French.^[8]

Meanings

Noun

1. The tendency to return sounds; reverberation, echo.^[2][4][3]

Related words

• English resonance

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
4. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
5. ^ a b Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
6. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
7. ^ Ramminger, Johann, Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, www.neulatein.de
8. ^ a b Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
9. ^ Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de