Etymology

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Today it means: A device produced by Sony. Full definition →

Latin sonus
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The story

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

A combination of Latin sonus (“sound”) and sonny (“boy”, diminutive).

Words from the same roots

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