sonata
English
    
    Etymology
    
From Italian sonata, from the feminine past participle of sonare (modern suonare), from Latin sonāre (“to make sound”). Doublet of sounded.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /səˈnɑːtə/
- Audio (Southern England) - (file) 
- Audio (US) - (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːtə
 
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /soʊˈneɪtə/
Noun
    
sonata (plural sonatas)
- (music) A musical composition for one or a few instruments, one of which is frequently a piano, in three or four movements that vary in key and tempo.
Hyponyms
    
- arpeggione sonata
- bassoon sonata
- cello sonata
- clarinet sonata
- flute sonata
- horn sonata
- keyboard sonata
- oboe sonata
- organ sonata
- piano sonata
- recorder sonata
- string sonata
- viola sonata
- violin sonata
Derived terms
    
Related terms
    
Translations
    
a musical composition for one or a few instruments
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See also
    
Anagrams
    
Catalan
    
    
Pronunciation
    
References
    
- “sonata”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Further reading
    
- “sonata” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sonata” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sonata” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Esperanto
    
    
Ido
    
    
Italian
    
    Alternative forms
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /soˈna.ta/
- Rhymes: -ata
- Hyphenation: so‧nà‧ta
Descendants
    
Further reading
    
- sonata in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Polish
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Italian sonata, from the feminine past participle of sonare (modern suonare), from Latin sonāre (“to make sound”).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /sɔˈna.ta/
- Audio - (file) 
- Rhymes: -ata
- Syllabification: so‧na‧ta
Declension
    
Portuguese
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /soˈna.tɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /soˈna.ta/
 
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /suˈna.tɐ/
- Rhymes: -atɐ
- Hyphenation: so‧na‧ta
Further reading
    
Spanish
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /soˈnata/ [soˈna.t̪a]
- Rhymes: -ata
- Syllabification: so‧na‧ta
Further reading
    
- “sonata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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