son1 (sun)

[Early mod. E. also sonne; daughter, with pp. formative -ta, and Gr. viós, dial. νἱύς, νἱυς, οὐτός, son, with formative -yu (1), also poet. ivis, son, daughter), zet I a-vow verayly the avaunt that I made, I schal zeply azayn & zelde that I hyzt, & sothely sende to Saré a soun & an hayre. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 666. The Town is called Jaff; for on of the Sones of Noe, that highte Japhet, founded it; and now it is clept Joppe. Mandeville , Travels, p. 30. A black bull, the son of a black cow. Darwin . 5768 sonabile (sō-nab'ē-le), a. [It., Let the trumpets sound The tucket sonance and the note to mount. Shak., Hen. V., iv. 2. 35. 2. Sonancy. sonancy (so'nan-si), n. [As sonance (see -cy).] The property or quality of having sound, or of being sonant; sonant character; sound. A concise description of voice, then, is this: it is the audible result of a column of air emitted by the lungs, impre ed with sonancy and variety of pitch by the larynx, and individualized by the mouth-organs. Whitney, Life and Growth of Lang., iv. sonant (sō'nant), a . and n. [F.sonnant = Sp. Pg. It. sonante, son us , a sound: see sounds. Cf. a onant, consonant, di onant, resonant.] I. a. 1. Pertaining to or having sound; sounding.-2. pron ., noting certain alphabetic sounds, as the vowels, semivowels, nasals, and voiced mutes and fricatives, the utterance of which includes the element of tone, or a vibration of the vocal chords, as a, b, n, b, z , v (the last three as opposed to p, s, f , which are similar utterances without tone); voiced, vocal, intonated ( soft and flat are also sometimes used in the same sense). - 3. In entom . , same as sonorific , 2. II. n. In pron ., a sonant letter.