Sonoranadj.

Brit.

/səˈnɔːrən/, U.S.

/səˈnɔrən/

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Sonora , -an suffix.

Etymology: < the name of Sonora, a state in north-western Mexico + -an suffix.

1. Of, relating to, or located in a large biogeographic region extending from north-western Mexico to the south-western United States and characterized by desert; (also) designating this region or the desert it contains.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > Central and South America > [adjective] > Central America

Central American1824

Sonoran1857

Mid-American1859

Middle American1910

Mesoamerican1948

1857 U.S. Democratic Rev. July 9 We believe it would have been a cause of general satisfaction had the Cuban, Sonoran, and Nicaraguan enterprises succeeded.

1880 E. D. Cope in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1878–80 18 263 This collection..is of interest as serving to fix the extension of the Sonoran fauna to a point further south.

1937 Discovery July 206/1 This sub-region has much in common with the Sonoran sub-region of the Nearctic Region.

1979 Tucson (Arizona) Mag. Feb. 79/1 There are more than 350 varieties of live animals and plants of the Sonoran desert on exhibit.

2003 Birder's World Apr. 32/1 In Arizona,..look for the world's only population of Masked Bobwhite, a secretive quail that scurries through the Sonoran grasses and thickets.

2. Designating a group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in southern Arizona and northern and western Mexico; designating a language within this group. Also: of or relating to this group of languages.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Uto-Aztecan > Aztecan

Mexicano1852

Sonoran1863

Nahuatlan1897

Nahuatl1915

1863 Trans. Ethnol. Soc. London 2 134 The Aztec affinities in the four principal Sonoran languages.

1909 A. F. Chamberlain in Amer. Anthropologist 11 535 A number of Shoshonean languages, from Ute to Nahuatl and some of the Sonoran tongues.

1964 S. M. Lamb in W. Bright Stud. in Californian Linguistics 114 The Sonoran words found to resemble Aztec were not the type one would expect to be borrowed.

1993 D. V. Meed They never Surrendered xxii. 148 Francisco..began to curse her in the rich and earthy Sonoran vocabulary of invective.

2015 F. Irigoyen-Rascón Tarahumara Med. iii. 71 The zone of maximum diversity for Sonoran languages at the time of the first contact with the Spaniards was located in Tarahumara territory.

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

单词	sonoran
释义	Sonoranadj. Brit. /səˈnɔːrən/, U.S. /səˈnɔrən/ Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Sonora , -an suffix. Etymology: < the name of Sonora, a state in north-western Mexico + -an suffix. 1. Of, relating to, or located in a large biogeographic region extending from north-western Mexico to the south-western United States and characterized by desert; (also) designating this region or the desert it contains. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > Central and South America > [adjective] > Central America Central American1824 Sonoran1857 Mid-American1859 Middle American1910 Mesoamerican1948 1857 U.S. Democratic Rev. July 9 We believe it would have been a cause of general satisfaction had the Cuban, Sonoran, and Nicaraguan enterprises succeeded. 1880 E. D. Cope in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1878–80 18 263 This collection..is of interest as serving to fix the extension of the Sonoran fauna to a point further south. 1937 Discovery July 206/1 This sub-region has much in common with the Sonoran sub-region of the Nearctic Region. 1979 Tucson (Arizona) Mag. Feb. 79/1 There are more than 350 varieties of live animals and plants of the Sonoran desert on exhibit. 2003 Birder's World Apr. 32/1 In Arizona,..look for the world's only population of Masked Bobwhite, a secretive quail that scurries through the Sonoran grasses and thickets. 2. Designating a group of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken in southern Arizona and northern and western Mexico; designating a language within this group. Also: of or relating to this group of languages. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Uto-Aztecan > Aztecan Mexicano1852 Sonoran1863 Nahuatlan1897 Nahuatl1915 1863 Trans. Ethnol. Soc. London 2 134 The Aztec affinities in the four principal Sonoran languages. 1909 A. F. Chamberlain in Amer. Anthropologist 11 535 A number of Shoshonean languages, from Ute to Nahuatl and some of the Sonoran tongues. 1964 S. M. Lamb in W. Bright Stud. in Californian Linguistics 114 The Sonoran words found to resemble Aztec were not the type one would expect to be borrowed. 1993 D. V. Meed They never Surrendered xxii. 148 Francisco..began to curse her in the rich and earthy Sonoran vocabulary of invective. 2015 F. Irigoyen-Rascón Tarahumara Med. iii. 71 The zone of maximum diversity for Sonoran languages at the time of the first contact with the Spaniards was located in Tarahumara territory. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1857
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