sonor Latin · revision 33251

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *suenH-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsɔ.nɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsɔː.nor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sonor''' ''m'' (genitive sonōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sonō|-or|t1=to sound]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|sonō]] to [[itc-pro|*swena-|t=to sound]] and [[ine-pro|*suenH-|t=to sound]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|seinnid|t=to play an instrument]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Lucretius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a sound or noise, especially a loud one.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it poetic, and used in post-Augustan prose for [[sonitus]] and [[sonus]]:^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lucretius, Virgil, Valerius Flaccus, Tacitus and Apuleius have it, in the singular and the plural.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(chiefly poetic)'' A [[m|en|sound]], [[m|en|noise]], [[m|en|din]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sonōrus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sonō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}