English

Noun

sons

1. plural of son

Catalan

Noun

sons

1. plural of só

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ̃/

Noun

sons m

1. plural of son

Latin

Etymology

Old present participle from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-, whence sum. Thus prop. "he who was it", "the real person", "the guilty one". Confer with English sooth, sin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sons/, [sõːs]

Adjective

sōns m, f, n ‎(genitive sontis); third declension

1. guilty
2. criminal

Inflection

Third declension.

Noun

sōns m ‎(genitive sontis); third declension

1. criminal

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Derived terms

• īnsōns
• sonticus

Descendants

• Portuguese: sonte
• Spanish: sonte

References

• sons in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sons in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SONS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sons”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag

Portuguese

Noun

sons m pl

1. plural of som

Swedish

Noun

sons

1. indefinite genitive singular of son
2. definite genitive singular of so

Volapük

Noun

sons

1. nominative plural of son
2. vocative plural of son (i.e., o sons!)