Etymograph

English

absonant

Absonant comes from Latin sonans ‘sound’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsonans‘sound’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1644-1646absonant

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsonans‘sound’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1644-1646absonant

Earliest quotation: 1644-1646, Francis Quarles, The Mourners Calamity: “absonant to nature”.

Formed from ab- + sonant

Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo ‘off, away’

English ab-

Latin sonāns ‘sounding, resounding’

English sonant

Linked words

through Latin sonans ‘sound’

consonant, 2 more

Today it means

adj Discordant; harsh; contrary; unreasonable.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin sonans / absonant

Shirt and support for this word