assonate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin assonō, from ad (“to, towards”) + sonō (“I sound, resound”).
Verb
[edit]assonate (third-person singular simple present assonates, present participle assonating, simple past and past participle assonated)
- To correspond in (particularly vowel) sounds.
- Part of the magic of her poetry was her ability to have her words assonate in the most propitious places.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]assonate
- inflection of assonare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]assonate f pl