different between consonant vs dorsum
consonant
English
Etymology
From Middle English consonant or consonaunt, from Old French consonant, from Latin c?nson?ns (“sounding with”), from the prefix con- (“with”) + the present participle son?ns (“sounding”), from son?re (“to sound”). The Latin is a calque of Ancient Greek ???????? (súmph?non).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?n's?n?nt, IPA(key): /?k?n.s?.n?nt/
- (US) enPR: kän's(?)n?nt, IPA(key): /?k?n.s?.n?nt/, /?k?ns.n?nt/
Noun
consonant (plural consonants)
- (phonetics) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
- A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
Translations
Adjective
consonant (comparative more consonant, superlative most consonant)
- Characterized by harmony or agreement.
- 1710, William Beveridge, The true nature of the Christian church, the office of its ministers, and the means of grace administred by them explain'd. In twelve sermons
- Each one pretends that his opinion […] is consonant to the words there used.
- 1900, Sabine Baring-Gould, "The Rev. Mr. Carter, Parson-Publican", in Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events
- Cheerfulness, even gaiety, is consonant with every species of virtue and practice of religion, and I think it inconsistent only with impiety and vice.
- 1946, United States Supreme Court, Pennekamp v. Florida 328 U.S. 331,334
- This essential right of the courts to be free of intimidation and coercion was held to be consonant with a recognition that freedom of the press must be allowed in the broadest scope compatible with the supremacy of order.
- 1710, William Beveridge, The true nature of the Christian church, the office of its ministers, and the means of grace administred by them explain'd. In twelve sermons
- Having the same sound.
- 1645-1650, James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae
- consonant words and syllables
- 1645-1650, James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae
- (music) Harmonizing together; accordant.
- consonant tones; consonant chords
- Of or relating to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
- 1813, Thomas Moore, Intercepted Letters, or the Two-Penny Post-Bag
- No Russian whose dissonant consonant name / Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame.
- 1813, Thomas Moore, Intercepted Letters, or the Two-Penny Post-Bag
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:consonant.
Antonyms
- disconsonant
- dissonant
- discordant
Related terms
- consonance
- consonantal
Translations
See also
- vowel
- semivowel
- Wikipedia article on consonants
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin consonans, attested from the 14th century.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /kon.so?nant/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kun.su?nan/
- Rhymes: -ant
Adjective
consonant (masculine and feminine plural consonants)
- consonant
Noun
consonant f (plural consonants)
- consonant
Derived terms
- consonàntic
References
Further reading
- “consonant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “consonant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “consonant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?kon.so.nant/, [?kõ?s??nän?t?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kon.so.nant/, [?k?ns?n?n?t?]
Verb
c?nsonant
- third-person plural present active indicative of c?nson?
consonant From the web:
- what consonants
- what consonant mean
- what consonant phonemes are unvoiced
- what consonant blends to teach first
- what consonants are voiced
- what consonants should be taught first
- what consonants are voiced
- what consonant blends to teach first
dorsum
English
Etymology
From Latin dorsum.
Noun
dorsum (plural dorsa)
- The back of the tongue, used for articulating dorsal consonants.
- The top of the foot or the back of the hand.
- (anatomy) The back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal.
- (astrogeology) A ridge on a hill, or on the surface of a planet or moon.
- (astronomy) Theta Capricorni, a star on the back of the Goat
Synonyms
- (back of an animal): back
Related terms
- dorsal / dorsumal
Translations
References
- dorsum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- dorsum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- dromus, dumsor
Latin
Alternative forms
- *dossum
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *dorsom, with no known cognates in any other Indo-European languages. Has been linked to deorsum, but their contemporaneous use suggests that one was not a phonetic development of the other.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?dor.sum/, [?d??rs????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?dor.sum/, [?d??rsum]
Noun
dorsum n (genitive dors?); second declension
- (anatomy) back, part of the body between the neck and buttocks
- (figuratively) ridge, summit
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Antonyms
- venter
Derived terms
- dors?lis
- dorsualia
Descendants
References
- dorsum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dorsum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dorsum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- dorsum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
dorsum From the web:
- what dorsum of foot
- what's dorsum of hand
- dorsum what means
- what does dorsum mean
- what is dorsum of tongue
- what is dorsum in anatomy
- what is dorsum of nose
- what does dorsum mean in anatomy
you may also like
- consonant vs dorsum
- tongue vs dorsum
- back vs dorsum
- rakhis vs rakis
- rachis vs rakhis
- raches vs naches
- raches vs braches
- raphes vs raches
- riches vs raches
- rachets vs raches
- raches vs races
- raches vs aches
- raches vs reaches
- paracompactifying vs paracompact
- dimension vs compactify
- periodic vs compactify
- finite vs compactify
- compact vs compactify
- tropopause vs stratropause
- tropopause vs troposhere