sonnet B2 Topic:Communication US /ˈsɒnɪt/ See IPA manual Freq #31704 Meanings 1 noun A poem of fourteen lines with a fixed rhyme scheme. Shakespeare wrote a famous sonnet that begins, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" 2 verb To write sonnets, or to write a sonnet about something. The young poet sonneted endlessly about his lost love. Thesaurus Word family Forms sonnets Etymology AI details Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”). sonnet Middle French sonetto Italian sonet pro sonus Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Communication External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # sonnet **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun, verb **IPA (US):** /ˈsɒnɪt/ **Frequency rank:** 31704 ## Meanings 1. A poem of fourteen lines with a fixed rhyme scheme. 2. To write sonnets, or to write a sonnet about something. ## Examples - Shakespeare wrote a famous sonnet that begins, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" - The young poet sonneted endlessly about his lost love. ## Roots and Affixes - Root: sonnet - Root: sonetto - Root: sonet - Root: sonus ## Etymology Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”). ## AI Etymology Sonnet is borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”). Important forms in the word's history include Middle French sonnet, Italian sonetto, pro sonet, Latin sonus. In current use it includes senses such as A poem of fourteen lines with a fixed rhyme scheme and To write sonnets, or to write a sonnet about something. ## Topics - Communication markdown