asonant
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]asonant (not comparable)
- Not sounding or sounded; silent.
- The first d in "Wednesday" and the s in "aisle" are asonant.
- 1829, Rhyme the Leading Principle of Latin Versification, page 15:
- Thus reponens is an asonant rhyme to deprœlian in the following stanza.
Usage notes
[edit]- Not to be confused with assonant.
References
[edit]- “asonant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French assonant.
Adjective
[edit]asonant m or n (feminine singular asonantă, masculine plural asonanți, feminine and neuter plural asonante)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | asonant | asonantă | asonanți | asonante | |||
| definite | asonantul | asonanta | asonanții | asonantele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | asonant | asonante | asonanți | asonante | |||
| definite | asonantului | asonantei | asonanților | asonantelor | ||||
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