sonata

From Italian sonata, from the feminine past participle of sonare (modern suonare), from Latin sonāre (“to make sound”). Doublet of sounded.

• IPA^(key): /səˈnɑːtə/

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  Rhymes: -ɑːtə

• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /soʊˈneɪtə/

sonata (plural sonatas)

1. (music) A musical composition for one or a few instruments, one of which is frequently a piano, in three or four movements that vary in key and tempo.

• Aostan

Borrowed from Italian sonata. First attested in 1839.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central) [suˈna.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [soˈna.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [soˈna.ta]

sonata f (plural sonates)

1. sonata

• “sonata” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sonata” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sonata” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

sonata (accusative singular sonatan, plural sonataj, accusative plural sonatajn)

1. singular present passive participle of soni

sonata

1. present passive participle of sonar

• suonata

• IPA^(key): /soˈna.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: so‧nà‧ta

sonata f (plural sonate)

1. sonata

sonata f sg

1. feminine singular of sonato

• sonata in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• ansato, sanato

sonata

1. Rōmaji transcription of そなた
2. Rōmaji transcription of ソナタ

Borrowed from Italian sonata, from the feminine past participle of sonare (modern suonare), from Latin sonāre (“to make sound”).

• IPA^(key): /sɔˈna.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: so‧na‧ta

sonata f

1. (music) sonata

• sonata in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sonata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Italian sonata.

• Rhymes: -atɐ
• Hyphenation: so‧na‧ta

sonata f (plural sonatas)

1. (music) sonata (a musical composition for one or a few instruments)

• “sonata”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Borrowed from Italian sonata.

• IPA^(key): /soˈnata/ [soˈna.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: so‧na‧ta

sonata f (plural sonatas)

1. sonata

• “sonata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10