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- Latin · derived fromassonāre
- French · borrowed fromassonance
- English todayassonance
From French assonance, from Latin assonāre; by surface analysis, a- + son- + -ance.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
assonance
Today it means: The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry. Full definition →
French assonance ← Latin assonāre