Etymology

soniferous

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Today it means: Producing or conveying sound; sonorous. Full definition →

Latin sonus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromsonus“sound”
  2. English todaysoniferous

From Latin sonus (“sound”) + -ferous.

Words from the same roots

Latinsonus all →

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