different between sestet vs sonnet

English

Etymology

Italian sestetto, from sesto (“sixth”), Latin sextus, from sex (“six”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

sestet (plural sestets)

1. (music) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.
2. (poetry) The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.

See also

• couplet
• tercet
• quatrain
• cinquain
• septet
• octave

Anagrams

• teests, testes, tsetse

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English sextet.

Noun

sestet m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. sextet

Synonyms

• shey

Mutation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n?t/
• Rhymes: -?n?t

Noun

sonnet (plural sonnets)

1. A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.

Translations

See also

• poem
• English sonnet
• Italian sonnet
• quatorzain

Verb

sonnet (third-person singular simple present sonnets, present participle sonneting, simple past and past participle sonneted)

1. (intransitive) To compose sonnets.
2. (transitive) To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about.

Anagrams

• Neston, non est, nonets, senton, stonen, tennos, tenons, tenson, tonnes

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sonnet, from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??n?t/
• Hyphenation: son?net
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

sonnet n (plural sonnetten, diminutive sonnetje n)

1. sonnet

   Synonym: klinkdicht

Derived terms

• meestersonnet
• Shakespearesonnet
• sonnettenbakker
• sonnettencyclus
• sonnettenkrans

Anagrams

• snoten

References

• “sonnet” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

Etymology

From Middle French sonnet, borrowed from Italian sonetto, from Old Occitan sonet (“a song”), diminutive of son (“song, sound”), from Latin sonus (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.n?/

Noun

sonnet m (plural sonnets)

1. sonnet

Further reading

• “sonnet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• entons, tenons, tonnes, tonnés

German

Pronunciation

Verb

sonnet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of sonnen