resound

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzaʊnd/
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• General-American: /ɹəˈzaʊnd/
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• General-American: /ɹi-/
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• rhymes with -aʊnd
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌɹiːˈsaʊnd/
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• General-American: /ˌɹiˈsaʊnd/
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• CMU ARPABET: R IY2 S AW1 N D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: R IY2 Z AW1 N D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Late Middle English resoun, reson (“echoing or reverberating sound; clangour, din, noise”), from Old French reson, and from its etymon Latin resonus (“echoing, resounding”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + sonus (“sound; noise; pitch; speech; (figuratively) character, style, tone; tongue, voice”) (from sonō (verb) (see further at etymology 1) + -us (suffix forming nouns)). * (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈsaʊnd/, /-ˈzaʊnd/ * Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) Audio: (file) * (General American) IPA(key): /ɹəˈsaʊnd/, /ɹi-/, /-ˈzaʊnd/ * Audio (General American): (file) Audio: (file) * Rhymes: -aʊnd * Hyphenation: re‧sound

From both of the following: * From Late Middle English resounen (“to return with an echo, resound; to make a sound, to sound; of speech or writing: to announce a theme”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman resoner, resouner [and other forms], Middle French resoner, and Old French resoner (“to make a (deep or echoing) sound; of sounds: to echo; to ring; of one’s name or actions: to be frequently recounted; of a place: to re-echo or ring with sound”) (modern French résonner), from Latin resonāre, the present active infinitive of resonō (“to ring or sound again, re-echo, resound; to call repeatedly; to give back the sound of (something), re-echo or resound (something)”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + sonō (“to make a noise, resound, sound; to sound (something); to speak or utter (something); to call, cry out; to celebrate; to extol, praise; to sing”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swenh2- (“to sound”)). * From re- (prefix meaning ‘again, anew’) + sound (“to produce a sound”). Cognates * Catalan ressonar * Italian resonare (obsolete), risonare * Old Occitan resonar * Portuguese ressoar, ressonar, resonar (obsolete) * Spanish resonar

From re- (prefix meaning ‘again, anew’) + sound (“to produce a sound”).

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: ressonar — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Chinese Mandarin: 迴響 /回响 (huíxiǎng) — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Chinese Mandarin: 鳴響 /鸣响 (míngxiǎng) — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Esperanto: sonori — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• French: résonner — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• German: erklingen — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• German: erschallen — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• German: tönen — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Italian: risuonare — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Japanese: 響く (hibiku) — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Japanese: 鳴り響く (narihibiku) — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Central Kurdish: زِڕِنگایەوە (zirringayewe) — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Latin: canō — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Māori: ngātoro — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Māori: tōiri — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Māori: tōiriiri — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Middle English: dynnen — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Old English: āhlēoþrian — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Persian: خنیدن (xanidan) — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Portuguese: ressoar — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Portuguese: reverberar — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Romanian: răsuna — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Russian: оглаша́ться (oglašátʹsja) — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Russian: раздава́ться (razdavátʹsja) — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Russian: звуча́ть (zvučátʹ) — of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise
• Portuguese: ressoar — especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating sound; to make sounds continuously
• Portuguese: reverberar — especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating sound; to make sounds continuously
• Bulgarian: еча (eča) — to echo or repeat (a sound)
• Bulgarian: ехтя (ehtja) — to echo or repeat (a sound)
• Dutch: weerklinken — to echo or repeat (a sound)
• Dutch: weerschalken — to echo or repeat (a sound)
• French: résonner — to echo or repeat (a sound)
• Greek: αντιλαλώ (antilaló) — to echo or repeat (a sound)
• Italian: risuonare — to echo or repeat (a sound)
• Old English: ābrastlian — to echo or repeat (a sound)
• Portuguese: ressoar — to echo or repeat (a sound)
• Sanskrit: स्तनति (stanati) — to echo or repeat (a sound)
• Tocharian B: käln- — to echo or repeat (a sound)
• Vietnamese: vang vọng — to echo or repeat (a sound)