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noun

Sonant n. A sonant letter.

adjective

Sonant adj.

Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.

(Phonetics) Uttered, as an element of speech, with tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; vocal; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; said of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate.

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Etymology of 'Sonant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sonant" Quotes from Famous Books

... important distinction is that between voiced (orsonant) and voiceless (orsurd) consonants.[2] In Old English they are ...

— Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book - with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary • C. Alphonso Smith

... tibiarum strepitu homines compellebant in rabiem. Habet enim ille sonitus miram vim ad commovendos animos. At horribilius sonant nostra tympana, nunc anapaestis, nunc pyrrhichiis perstrepentia. At his nunc pro tubis 115 Christiani utimur in bello, quasi illic non satis sit esse fortem, sed oporteat furere. Quid autem dixi de bello? Utimur in nuptiis, utimur diebus festis, utimur in templis. Ad furiosum ...

— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus