sonorityn.

Brit.

/səˈnɒrᵻti/, U.S.

/səˈnɔrədi/

Forms: 1600s sonoritie, 1800s– sonority.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French sonorité; Latin sonoritat-, sonoritas.

Etymology: < (i) French sonorité quality of being sonorous (c1380 in Middle French as sonnorité ; 1836 or earlier with reference to auscultation of the chest), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin sonoritat-, sonoritas pleasing sound (5th or 6th cent.; frequently from 8th cent. in British sources), loudness, resonance, (of substance or material) sonorous quality (from 12th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin sonōrus (see sonorous adj.) + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare sonoreity n., sonoriety n.Compare Spanish sonoridad (end of the 15th cent.), Italian sonorità (14th cent.).

a. The fact or quality of a sound being sonorous; loudness, resonance, richness, or depth; (Music) quality of tone. Also as a count noun.

ΘΚΠ

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

fullness1440

shillness1486

sonority1623

resonance1669

sonorousness1669

soundingness1727

sonorosity1772

sonoriety1828

plangency1858

canorousness1870

ringingness1874

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. i Sonoritie, shrilnesse, loudnesse.

1830 Atlas 25 July 492/2 A young man, who seems to be the principal bass here, has a voice of rare beauty in the sonority, richness, and smoothness of the low notes.

1864 Reader 16 Jan. 86/1 An amount of sonority..ten times as much as the ten first fiddles of the Brussels Conservatoire.

1904 Perry Mag. Feb. 261/2 The bell's sonority is marvelous.

1974 Daily Tel. 11 Feb. 10/4 Every member of the choir seems to command a soloistic projection yet the overall sonority is magnificently blended.

1998 M. Cooke Britten & Far East (2001) i. 21 Lou Harrison..created a metallic piano sonority by the simple ploy of sticking drawing pins into the felt covering of the hammers.

2010 Cathedral Music May 60/2 In these transcriptions, we hear..the contrasted sonorities of the registers of the keyboard.

b. Phonetics. The inherent loudness of a speech sound; spec. the loudness of a speech sound relative to others if pitch, stress, and length are kept equal; frequently attributive in sonority hierarchy, sonority scale.Usually with reference to determining the typical or possible order of speech sounds within a syllable; see, for example, quot. 1989.

ΚΠ

1894 Mod. Lang. Notes 9 247/2 In this diphthong the sonority of the two members is about alike.

1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. 56 The sound that possesses the highest degree of sonority in a syllable is called syllabic or sonant.

1942 Mod. Lang. Notes 57 39 When two vowels collide, the weaker one is suppressed, according to a sonority scale.

1957 R. Quirk & C. L. Wrenn Old Eng. Gram. (ed. 2) 14 Although in each of these, two vowel sounds were heard, they were pronounced as a single glide, with one crest of sonority, so that they formed one syllable and not two.

1974 Papers from Parasession on Natural Phonol. (Chicago Linguistic Soc.) 137 Why should the representation of the sonority hierarchy in terms of those features be so complex and opaque?

1989 W. Daelemans in F. J. Heyvaert & F. Steurs Worlds behind Words iii. 348 This condition specifies that the sonority of phonemes decreases from the inside of the syllable to the outsides, according to a sonority hierarchy in which vowels are most sonorant, followed by semi-vowels, liquids, nasals, fricatives, and plosives.

2011 Phonol. 28 203 Eighteen clusters that never occur as English onsets..were chosen to vary across the whole range of sonority (e.g. [tl] involves a large sonority rise, whereas [rg] involves a large sonority fall).

2. The fact or quality of producing a sonorous sound; capacity or tendency to resound. Now rare.Sometimes in medical contexts, with reference to auscultation of the chest; cf. sonorous adj. 2b, sonoriety n.

ΚΠ

1836 Lancet 27 Feb. 859/2 The sonority of the chest is normal.

1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 10 The salle [of the theatre] is said to be deficient in sonority.

1897 Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. 9 19 The sonority of the chest, and the peculiar character of the respiration.

1972 N.Y. Times 22 Mar. 60/4 Their instrument [sc. the viola] has neither the brilliance of the violin nor the strong sonority of the cello.

2015 Sunday Times (Nexis) 6 Dec. 24 The well-nigh symphonic sonority of modern grand pianos.

3. Imposing, flowing, or harmonious quality of language or diction. Cf. sonorous adj. 3a.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > fluency

profluence1568

flowing1584

slidingnessa1586

currentness1586

smoothness1589

facility1598

fluidity1603

fluency1636

profluencya1683

volubleness1727

torrentfulness1873

sonority1876

unrestraint1885

1876 Contemp. Rev. 28 240 Milton's proficiency on the organ is hardly to be forgotten in considering the richness and sonority of his language.

1883 Ld. Lytton Life & Lett. Lytton II. 100 The fine sonority of the verse in Tamberlain.

a1938 T. Wolfe You can't go Home Again (1973) v. xxxiv. 436 He fairly smacked his lips over the triple-barreled sonority of their titles.

1964 Texas Stud. Lit. & Lang. 6 288 The musical flow of words, the sonority and counterpoint of the prose are evocative of the theme itself.

1992 Keats–Shelley Jrnl. 41 146 To alter the poetic rhythm and sonority of language is to destroy the poet's very conceptions.

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

单词	sonority
释义	sonorityn. Brit. /səˈnɒrᵻti/, U.S. /səˈnɔrədi/ Forms: 1600s sonoritie, 1800s– sonority. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French sonorité; Latin sonoritat-, sonoritas. Etymology: < (i) French sonorité quality of being sonorous (c1380 in Middle French as sonnorité ; 1836 or earlier with reference to auscultation of the chest), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin sonoritat-, sonoritas pleasing sound (5th or 6th cent.; frequently from 8th cent. in British sources), loudness, resonance, (of substance or material) sonorous quality (from 12th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin sonōrus (see sonorous adj.) + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare sonoreity n., sonoriety n.Compare Spanish sonoridad (end of the 15th cent.), Italian sonorità (14th cent.). 1. a. The fact or quality of a sound being sonorous; loudness, resonance, richness, or depth; (Music) quality of tone. Also as a count noun. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [noun] > resonant quality fullness1440 shillness1486 sonority1623 resonance1669 sonorousness1669 soundingness1727 sonorosity1772 sonoriety1828 plangency1858 canorousness1870 ringingness1874 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. i Sonoritie, shrilnesse, loudnesse. 1830 Atlas 25 July 492/2 A young man, who seems to be the principal bass here, has a voice of rare beauty in the sonority, richness, and smoothness of the low notes. 1864 Reader 16 Jan. 86/1 An amount of sonority..ten times as much as the ten first fiddles of the Brussels Conservatoire. 1904 Perry Mag. Feb. 261/2 The bell's sonority is marvelous. 1974 Daily Tel. 11 Feb. 10/4 Every member of the choir seems to command a soloistic projection yet the overall sonority is magnificently blended. 1998 M. Cooke Britten & Far East (2001) i. 21 Lou Harrison..created a metallic piano sonority by the simple ploy of sticking drawing pins into the felt covering of the hammers. 2010 Cathedral Music May 60/2 In these transcriptions, we hear..the contrasted sonorities of the registers of the keyboard. b. Phonetics. The inherent loudness of a speech sound; spec. the loudness of a speech sound relative to others if pitch, stress, and length are kept equal; frequently attributive in sonority hierarchy, sonority scale.Usually with reference to determining the typical or possible order of speech sounds within a syllable; see, for example, quot. 1989. ΚΠ 1894 Mod. Lang. Notes 9 247/2 In this diphthong the sonority of the two members is about alike. 1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. 56 The sound that possesses the highest degree of sonority in a syllable is called syllabic or sonant. 1942 Mod. Lang. Notes 57 39 When two vowels collide, the weaker one is suppressed, according to a sonority scale. 1957 R. Quirk & C. L. Wrenn Old Eng. Gram. (ed. 2) 14 Although in each of these, two vowel sounds were heard, they were pronounced as a single glide, with one crest of sonority, so that they formed one syllable and not two. 1974 Papers from Parasession on Natural Phonol. (Chicago Linguistic Soc.) 137 Why should the representation of the sonority hierarchy in terms of those features be so complex and opaque? 1989 W. Daelemans in F. J. Heyvaert & F. Steurs Worlds behind Words iii. 348 This condition specifies that the sonority of phonemes decreases from the inside of the syllable to the outsides, according to a sonority hierarchy in which vowels are most sonorant, followed by semi-vowels, liquids, nasals, fricatives, and plosives. 2011 Phonol. 28 203 Eighteen clusters that never occur as English onsets..were chosen to vary across the whole range of sonority (e.g. [tl] involves a large sonority rise, whereas [rg] involves a large sonority fall). 2. The fact or quality of producing a sonorous sound; capacity or tendency to resound. Now rare.Sometimes in medical contexts, with reference to auscultation of the chest; cf. sonorous adj. 2b, sonoriety n. ΚΠ 1836 Lancet 27 Feb. 859/2 The sonority of the chest is normal. 1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 10 The salle [of the theatre] is said to be deficient in sonority. 1897 Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. 9 19 The sonority of the chest, and the peculiar character of the respiration. 1972 N.Y. Times 22 Mar. 60/4 Their instrument [sc. the viola] has neither the brilliance of the violin nor the strong sonority of the cello. 2015 Sunday Times (Nexis) 6 Dec. 24 The well-nigh symphonic sonority of modern grand pianos. 3. Imposing, flowing, or harmonious quality of language or diction. Cf. sonorous adj. 3a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > fluency profluence1568 flowing1584 slidingnessa1586 currentness1586 smoothness1589 facility1598 fluidity1603 fluency1636 profluencya1683 volubleness1727 torrentfulness1873 sonority1876 unrestraint1885 1876 Contemp. Rev. 28 240 Milton's proficiency on the organ is hardly to be forgotten in considering the richness and sonority of his language. 1883 Ld. Lytton Life & Lett. Lytton II. 100 The fine sonority of the verse in Tamberlain. a1938 T. Wolfe You can't go Home Again (1973) v. xxxiv. 436 He fairly smacked his lips over the triple-barreled sonority of their titles. 1964 Texas Stud. Lit. & Lang. 6 288 The musical flow of words, the sonority and counterpoint of the prose are evocative of the theme itself. 1992 Keats–Shelley Jrnl. 41 146 To alter the poetic rhythm and sonority of language is to destroy the poet's very conceptions. 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