The story
- Latin · derived fromsonāre“to make sound”
- Italian · borrowed fromsonata
- English todaysonata
From Italian sonata, from the feminine past participle of sonare (modern suonare), from Latin sonāre (“to make sound”). Doublet of sounded.
Words from the same roots
Latinsonāre all →
rhonchisonant
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.