sonant

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

Borrowed from Latin sonāns, sonantis. By surface analysis, Latin son(ō) + -ant.

Compare dissonant, assonance, sonant, sonorous, sonata. — Stories from Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore
Now this great body, with so many fronts, and so many motions, which seems to threaten heaven and earth:-- Quam multi Lybico volvuntur marmore fluctus, Sævus ubi Orion hibemis conditur undis, Vel quam solo novo densæ torrentur Aristæ, Aut Hermi campo, aut Lyciæ flaventibus arvis; Scuta sonant, pulsuque pedum tremit excita tellus: “Not thicker billows beat the Lybian main, When pale Orion sits in wintry rain; Nor thicker harvests on rich Hermus rise, Or Lycian fields, when Phobus burns the skies, Than stand these troops: their bucklers ring around; Their trampling turns the turf and shakes the solid ground:” this furious monster, with so many heads and arms, is yet man--feeble, calamitous, and miserable man! — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne

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