sonus

• IPA^(key): /ˈsonus/
• Rhymes: -onus
• Syllabification: so‧nus

sonus

1. conditional of soni

sonus

1. conditional of sonar

From Proto-Indo-European *swónh₂os, from the root *swenh₂- (“to sound”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *swanaz.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔ.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔː.nus]

sonus m (genitive sonī or sonūs); variously declined, second declension, fourth declension

1. sound, noise; pitch; speech
2. (figuratively) tone, character, style
3. (figuratively) voice, tongue
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.119:

     Nunc mihi mīlle sonōs

     Now [grant] to me a thousand voices
     Now I could wish for a thousand tongues

Second-declension noun or fourth-declension noun.

• “sonus, -ī (-ūs)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sonus, -ī”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sonus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Sonus, -ī”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "sonus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “sonus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sonus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

From sona (“prosperous, fortunate, lucky”) (from Old Irish sonae) + -us.

sonus m

1. good fortune, prosperity, happiness

• Irish: sonas
• Manx: sonnys
• Scottish Gaelic: sonas

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sonus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

sonus

1. predicative plural of son