Definitions
A speech sound made with partial or full closure of the vocal tract.
Word origin
From Middle English consonant or consonaunt, from Old French consonant, from Latin cōnsonāns (“sounding with”), from the prefix con- (“with”) + the present participle sonāns (“sounding”), from sonāre (“to sound”). The Latin is a calque of Ancient Greek σύμφωνον (súmphōnon).
Used in a sentence
““Tell me, has right anything to do with the law?” I asked. “You have used the wrong initial consonant,” he smiled in answer. “Might?” I queried; and he nodded his head.”
“Each one pretends that his opinion […] is consonant to the words there used.”
“Cheerfulness, even gaiety, is consonant with every species of virtue and practice of religion, and I think it inconsistent only with impiety and vice.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Speech sound”9 letters
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