sonorousadj.

Brit.

/ˈsɒn(ə)rəs/,

/səˈnɔːrəs/, U.S.

/ˈsɑnərəs/,

/səˈnɔrəs/

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: French sonoreux ; Latin sonōrus , -ous suffix.

Etymology: Originally (in quot. 1611) < French †sonoreux (a1524 in Middle French) < classical Latin sonōrus (see below) + Middle French -eux -ous suffix. Subsequently < classical Latin sonōrus full of sound, loud, (of diction) high-sounding ( < sonor sound < sonāre to sound (see sound v.¹) + -or -or suffix) + -ous suffix. Compare earlier sonorously adv., and also earlier sonore adj.Compare post-classical Latin sonorosus (6th cent., c1200 in British sources; also in continental sources), Middle French, French sonore (1593; earliest in the adverb sonorement : see sonorously adv.).

a. That makes a loud or resonant sound; capable of producing a loud sound, esp. of a deep or ringing character.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adjective]

loudc897

shillOE

brightOE

shillinga1225

soundingc1374

ringingc1400

sonore?c1400

resoundingc1425

sonousc1429

resoundable?c1500

soundish1530

high-sounding1560

singing1565

resonant1572

trolling1581

rumbelow1582

sonorous1611

canorous1646

remugient1660

retentive1728

fullish1770

pealing1794

resonating1845

plangent1858

resonatory1880

timbrous1929

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sonoreux, sonorous, lowd, shrill, roring, ringing.

1637 N. C. Diatelesma 95 Which [charge] was to be given from the long-lowd throats of the Trumpets, or sonorous bellies of the military Pythons the drums.

1680 L. Maidwell Loving Enemies iv. 46 We spy'd that garrulous and domestick Bird, vulgarly call'd a Hen, which soon became more lowd and sonorous than the other.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. §1. 425 The simple Sounds of all uniform sonorous Bodies.

1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 410 The steel ores are mostly very hard, the masses being frequently sonorous.

1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 44 Washed linen became hard and sonorous.

1864 C. Engel Music Most Anc. Nations 11 Instruments consisting of a series of pieces of sonorous wood.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1340 The sea-snail's shell [becomes] a sonorous trumpet.

1991 Descant Summer 25 Idiophones, i.e., instruments made from solid, sonorous materials such as gongs and bells.

2015 L. M. Murray Chamber Music 58 We then burst into the anguished Allegro vivace where the cello is sonorous and the piano brilliant.

b. Esp. of a place or environment: full of sound or noise; resounding, roaring.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adjective] > of places

resonant1572

sonorous1701

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adjective] > noisy > of places

noisefula1382

louda1616

noisy1679

sonorous1701

dinful1877

1701 J. Trapp Aedes Badmintoniae 2 How will gay Notes, and vocal Airs conspire In This sonorous Room to fan the Fire Of gentle Love, and kindle soft Desire.

1729 G. Adams tr. Sophocles Antigone iv. ii, in tr. Sophocles Trag. II. 64 Upon famous Parnassus, or the sonorous Shore.

1841 H. D. Thoreau Let. 8 Sept. in Corr. (1958) 46 What with..the crowing of cocks, and the lowing of kine, our Concord life is sonorous enough.

1910 ‘O. Henry’ Chaparral Christmas Gift in Whirligigs 224 Sundown Ranch was sonorous with the crackling of jokes and sixshooters.

1975 S. Bellow Humboldt's Gift (1996) 414 The central post office of Madrid, with its sonorous halls.

a. Of a sound, esp. a person's voice: loud, resonant, imposingly deep and full.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adjective] > of sounds

resonant1592

sonorous1632

vocal1667

sepulchral1796

round1832

1632 T. Randolph Jealous Lovers iii. iv. 39 Give me a breath of thunder, let me speak Sonorous accents, till their clamours break Rocks with the noise obstreperous.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iii. xii. 367 To the Sonorous letters of this kind, there are three Mutes of affinity.

1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 90 It..makes the voice sonorous.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. x. 162 Nestor, brave Gerenian, with a voice Sonorous.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 56 Giving his niece one of those sonorous salutes, which..at least sound genuine.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ii. 29 His own sonorous utterance of the responses.

1879 S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Palestine xi. 241 The first sound that welcomed us was his sonorous bray.

1902 tr. M. Gorky Twenty-six & One 66 Twelve strokes of a bell, sonorous and measured, rang out.

1989 A. Lambert Love among Single Classes (1990) xvii. 235 His sonorous voice and unsmiling expression are more appropriate to a funeral than a wedding.

b. Medicine. Of a sound heard in auscultation of the chest: low-pitched and resonant.

ΚΠ

1809 J. Cheyne Pathol. Membrane Larynx & Bronchia 129 That very peculiar mode of respiration which appears to me spasmodic, which we have attempted to describe by the words crowing, sibilous, sonorous, croaking, and the like.

1827 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 2) 115 The respiration was strong, and accompanied by a deep sonorous rattle [Fr. un râle sonore grave].

1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iii. 385 The deeper notes are usually termed sonorous, the acuter notes sibilant.

1902 A. L. Blackwood Dis. Lungs xiv. 134 Upon auscultation sonorous and sibilant rales are heard over the chest [in broncho-pneumonia].

1976 Chest 70 292/1 There were many sonorous rhonchi over the left pulmonary field.

2013 R. . Collins Algorithmic Diagnosis Symptoms & Signs (ed. 3) 410 Carcinoma of the lung is more likely to be associated with sibilant and sonorous rales.

a. Of spoken or written style: using imposing language; having a full, rich sound; imposing, grand; harmonious.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > full-sounding or impressive

sonorous1650

1650 H. More Observ. Anthroposophia Theomagica 72 High things, and fiery and sonorous expressions of them in Authors, being sutable to your Youthfulnesse and poeticall phansie, you swagger and take on presently.

1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xxxviii His Expressions are Sonorous and more Noble.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 99 For this reason the Italian Opera..has something beautiful and sonorous in the Expression.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1754 I. 147 I told him, I thought it a very sonorous hexameter.

1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 374 They had a sonorous and harmonious language, distinct from all others.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 578 The word has been lately altered and made sonorous.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xliv. 213 Philip soon shared his friend's passion for the tragedians of Louis XIV and the sonorous Alexandrine.

2016 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 6 Feb. The sonorous character of the language encourages her [sc. Lahiri] to illustrate and repeat herself.

b. Of a person: having a full and rich style or voice; loud, vociferous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > loud or resonant > having full or rich voice

sonorous1673

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > full-sounding or impressive > of persons

sonorous1673

1673 W. H. tr. F. B. de Montalvan Naked Truth (new ed.) 33 I'le make a better Sermon that never preached in my life, than any of those sonorous Pulpit-Thumpers, you use to hear.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 235 But far o'er all sonorous B—'s strain, Walls, steeples, skies, bray back to him again.

1747 W. Murray Thistle 25 But, unless among Englishmen, I believe it was never known that a Descent from Mercers, Shoemakers..and Bailiffs Followers, render'd an Orator more persuasive, elegant, or sonorous.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. vi. 269 Santerre, the sonorous Brewer of the Suburb Saint-Antoine.

1992 D. Littlejohn Ultimate Art ii. 91 No matter how stately and sonorous the speaker, these little ‘subtitles’ have the momentum-killing effect of television commercials interrupting a great late-night movie.

1994 S. Bellow Jefferson Lect. in It All adds Up 123 I remember portly, sonorous Mr. Sugarman, the schochet on Division Street, singing out the names of the states during the Democratic roll call.

4. Chiefly Physics. That conveys or conducts sound.

ΚΠ

1657 W. Carr tr. L. Rivière Universal Body Physick i. §6. x. 59 Hearing is a sense by which a man perceives with his ears an audible object, through a sonorous medium, that is, a medium fitted for the conducting of sound.

1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion vii. 80 Sonorous motions of the Air..find in bodies inanimate and Inorganicall, such congruous Textures and Dispositions to admit their action.

1745 tr. H. Boerhaave Acad. Lect. Theory Physic IV. 227 Hearing is performed when a sonorous Wave or Undulation of the Air makes an Impression upon the auditory Nerve by exciting harmonical Tremors in the Membrane of the Fenestra ovalis.

1839 G. Bird Elements Nat. Philos. 293 In the same manner as sonorous vibrations convey the sensation of sound to the ear.

1863 J. Tyndall Heat x. 281 The condensation and rarefaction constitute what is called a sonorous pulse or wave.

1943 G. Wernham tr. ‘Comte de Lautréamont’ Maldoror 200 The rude penetration of the sonorous waves..carried to my ears..a cry of despair.

2015 R. T. Beyer tr. E. F. F. Chladni Treat. Acoustics iii. i. 147 The sonorous vibrations of a body, produced in empty space, will not be heard if one prevents the transmission of these motions.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sonorous
释义	sonorousadj. Brit. /ˈsɒn(ə)rəs/, /səˈnɔːrəs/, U.S. /ˈsɑnərəs/, /səˈnɔrəs/ Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: French sonoreux ; Latin sonōrus , -ous suffix. Etymology: Originally (in quot. 1611) < French †sonoreux (a1524 in Middle French) < classical Latin sonōrus (see below) + Middle French -eux -ous suffix. Subsequently < classical Latin sonōrus full of sound, loud, (of diction) high-sounding ( < sonor sound < sonāre to sound (see sound v.¹) + -or -or suffix) + -ous suffix. Compare earlier sonorously adv., and also earlier sonore adj.Compare post-classical Latin sonorosus (6th cent., c1200 in British sources; also in continental sources), Middle French, French sonore (1593; earliest in the adverb sonorement : see sonorously adv.). 1. a. That makes a loud or resonant sound; capable of producing a loud sound, esp. of a deep or ringing character. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adjective] loudc897 shillOE brightOE shillinga1225 soundingc1374 ringingc1400 sonore?c1400 resoundingc1425 sonousc1429 resoundable?c1500 soundish1530 high-sounding1560 singing1565 resonant1572 trolling1581 rumbelow1582 sonorous1611 canorous1646 remugient1660 retentive1728 fullish1770 pealing1794 resonating1845 plangent1858 resonatory1880 timbrous1929 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sonoreux, sonorous, lowd, shrill, roring, ringing. 1637 N. C. Diatelesma 95 Which [charge] was to be given from the long-lowd throats of the Trumpets, or sonorous bellies of the military Pythons the drums. 1680 L. Maidwell Loving Enemies iv. 46 We spy'd that garrulous and domestick Bird, vulgarly call'd a Hen, which soon became more lowd and sonorous than the other. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. §1. 425 The simple Sounds of all uniform sonorous Bodies. 1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 410 The steel ores are mostly very hard, the masses being frequently sonorous. 1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 44 Washed linen became hard and sonorous. 1864 C. Engel Music Most Anc. Nations 11 Instruments consisting of a series of pieces of sonorous wood. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1340 The sea-snail's shell [becomes] a sonorous trumpet. 1991 Descant Summer 25 Idiophones, i.e., instruments made from solid, sonorous materials such as gongs and bells. 2015 L. M. Murray Chamber Music 58 We then burst into the anguished Allegro vivace where the cello is sonorous and the piano brilliant. b. Esp. of a place or environment: full of sound or noise; resounding, roaring. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adjective] > of places resonant1572 sonorous1701 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adjective] > noisy > of places noisefula1382 louda1616 noisy1679 sonorous1701 dinful1877 1701 J. Trapp Aedes Badmintoniae 2 How will gay Notes, and vocal Airs conspire In This sonorous Room to fan the Fire Of gentle Love, and kindle soft Desire. 1729 G. Adams tr. Sophocles Antigone iv. ii, in tr. Sophocles Trag. II. 64 Upon famous Parnassus, or the sonorous Shore. 1841 H. D. Thoreau Let. 8 Sept. in Corr. (1958) 46 What with..the crowing of cocks, and the lowing of kine, our Concord life is sonorous enough. 1910 ‘O. Henry’ Chaparral Christmas Gift in Whirligigs 224 Sundown Ranch was sonorous with the crackling of jokes and sixshooters. 1975 S. Bellow Humboldt's Gift (1996) 414 The central post office of Madrid, with its sonorous halls. 2. a. Of a sound, esp. a person's voice: loud, resonant, imposingly deep and full. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adjective] > of sounds resonant1592 sonorous1632 vocal1667 sepulchral1796 round1832 1632 T. Randolph Jealous Lovers iii. iv. 39 Give me a breath of thunder, let me speak Sonorous accents, till their clamours break Rocks with the noise obstreperous. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iii. xii. 367 To the Sonorous letters of this kind, there are three Mutes of affinity. 1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 90 It..makes the voice sonorous. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. x. 162 Nestor, brave Gerenian, with a voice Sonorous. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 56 Giving his niece one of those sonorous salutes, which..at least sound genuine. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ii. 29 His own sonorous utterance of the responses. 1879 S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Palestine xi. 241 The first sound that welcomed us was his sonorous bray. 1902 tr. M. Gorky Twenty-six & One 66 Twelve strokes of a bell, sonorous and measured, rang out. 1989 A. Lambert Love among Single Classes (1990) xvii. 235 His sonorous voice and unsmiling expression are more appropriate to a funeral than a wedding. b. Medicine. Of a sound heard in auscultation of the chest: low-pitched and resonant. ΚΠ 1809 J. Cheyne Pathol. Membrane Larynx & Bronchia 129 That very peculiar mode of respiration which appears to me spasmodic, which we have attempted to describe by the words crowing, sibilous, sonorous, croaking, and the like. 1827 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 2) 115 The respiration was strong, and accompanied by a deep sonorous rattle [Fr. un râle sonore grave]. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iii. 385 The deeper notes are usually termed sonorous, the acuter notes sibilant. 1902 A. L. Blackwood Dis. Lungs xiv. 134 Upon auscultation sonorous and sibilant rales are heard over the chest [in broncho-pneumonia]. 1976 Chest 70 292/1 There were many sonorous rhonchi over the left pulmonary field. 2013 R. . Collins Algorithmic Diagnosis Symptoms & Signs (ed. 3) 410 Carcinoma of the lung is more likely to be associated with sibilant and sonorous rales. 3. a. Of spoken or written style: using imposing language; having a full, rich sound; imposing, grand; harmonious. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > full-sounding or impressive sonorous1650 1650 H. More Observ. Anthroposophia Theomagica 72 High things, and fiery and sonorous expressions of them in Authors, being sutable to your Youthfulnesse and poeticall phansie, you swagger and take on presently. 1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xxxviii His Expressions are Sonorous and more Noble. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 99 For this reason the Italian Opera..has something beautiful and sonorous in the Expression. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1754 I. 147 I told him, I thought it a very sonorous hexameter. 1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 374 They had a sonorous and harmonious language, distinct from all others. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 578 The word has been lately altered and made sonorous. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xliv. 213 Philip soon shared his friend's passion for the tragedians of Louis XIV and the sonorous Alexandrine. 2016 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 6 Feb. The sonorous character of the language encourages her [sc. Lahiri] to illustrate and repeat herself. b. Of a person: having a full and rich style or voice; loud, vociferous. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > loud or resonant > having full or rich voice sonorous1673 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > full-sounding or impressive > of persons sonorous1673 1673 W. H. tr. F. B. de Montalvan Naked Truth (new ed.) 33 I'le make a better Sermon that never preached in my life, than any of those sonorous Pulpit-Thumpers, you use to hear. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 235 But far o'er all sonorous B—'s strain, Walls, steeples, skies, bray back to him again. 1747 W. Murray Thistle 25 But, unless among Englishmen, I believe it was never known that a Descent from Mercers, Shoemakers..and Bailiffs Followers, render'd an Orator more persuasive, elegant, or sonorous. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. vi. 269 Santerre, the sonorous Brewer of the Suburb Saint-Antoine. 1992 D. Littlejohn Ultimate Art ii. 91 No matter how stately and sonorous the speaker, these little ‘subtitles’ have the momentum-killing effect of television commercials interrupting a great late-night movie. 1994 S. Bellow Jefferson Lect. in It All adds Up 123 I remember portly, sonorous Mr. Sugarman, the schochet on Division Street, singing out the names of the states during the Democratic roll call. 4. Chiefly Physics. That conveys or conducts sound. ΚΠ 1657 W. Carr tr. L. Rivière Universal Body Physick i. §6. x. 59 Hearing is a sense by which a man perceives with his ears an audible object, through a sonorous medium, that is, a medium fitted for the conducting of sound. 1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion vii. 80 Sonorous motions of the Air..find in bodies inanimate and Inorganicall, such congruous Textures and Dispositions to admit their action. 1745 tr. H. Boerhaave Acad. Lect. Theory Physic IV. 227 Hearing is performed when a sonorous Wave or Undulation of the Air makes an Impression upon the auditory Nerve by exciting harmonical Tremors in the Membrane of the Fenestra ovalis. 1839 G. Bird Elements Nat. Philos. 293 In the same manner as sonorous vibrations convey the sensation of sound to the ear. 1863 J. Tyndall Heat x. 281 The condensation and rarefaction constitute what is called a sonorous pulse or wave. 1943 G. Wernham tr. ‘Comte de Lautréamont’ Maldoror 200 The rude penetration of the sonorous waves..carried to my ears..a cry of despair. 2015 R. T. Beyer tr. E. F. F. Chladni Treat. Acoustics iii. i. 147 The sonorous vibrations of a body, produced in empty space, will not be heard if one prevents the transmission of these motions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1611
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