Where does “ソナタ形式” come from?

ソナタ形式 (Japanese) comes from Japanese ソナタ, from Italian sonata, from Italian sonare, from Latin sonāre, from Latin sonus, from Latin sonō, from Proto-Italic *swonaō — to sound, resound.

ソナタ形式 (Japanese): sonata form

Definitions

  1. sonata form

Ancestry of “ソナタ形式”, step by step

ソナタ形式 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese ソナタ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseソナタsonata
2Italiansonatasonata; feminine singular of sonato
3ItaliansonareAlternative form of suonare
4Latinsonāre
5Latinsonussound, noise; pitch; speech; tone, character,...
6Latinsonōto sound, resound, make a sound or noise (and various sounds in-context)
7Proto-Italic*swonaōto sound, resound

via Japanese 形式

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese形式format
Every word from Proto-Italic *swonaōEvery word from Latin sonōEvery word from Latin sonus