🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

asonancia

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /asoˈnantθja/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Assonance/ˈæs.ə.nəns/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La rima asonancia es muy común en la poesía popular española."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthopng in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible.

    "The poem creates a melancholic mood through the heavy use of assonance in its open vowel sounds."
  2. 2

    Resemblance of sound, especially vowel sound, between words.

    "The phonetic assonance between the two phrases makes them easily confused by listeners."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the French word assonance, stemming from the Latin assonantia, combining ad- (to) and sonare (to sound). It entered the English language in the late 19th century as a technical term in prosody and phonetics to describe the resemblance of sound between syllables.

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