Where does “sonnet” come from?
Sonnet comes from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Latin sonus meaning sound.
sonnet (English): A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting...
Definitions
- A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting...
Ancestry of “sonnet”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | sonnet | sonnet |
| 2 | German | Sonett | sonnet |
| 3 | Italian | sonetto | sonnet; first-person singular present indicative... |
| 4 | Old Occitan | sonet | a song |
| 5 | Old Occitan | son | song, sound |
| 6 | Latin | sonus | sound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,... |
| 7 | Latin | sonō | to sound, resound, make a sound or noise (and various sounds in-context) |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *swonaō | to sound, resound |