asonant

From a- +‎ sonant.

• enPR: ā-sōnʹənt, IPA^(key): /eɪ̯ˈsoʊ̯n.ənt/
• Rhymes: -əʊnənt

asonant (not comparable)

1. Not sounding or sounded; silent.

   The first d in "Wednesday" and the s in "aisle" are asonant.

   • 1829, Rhyme the Leading Principle of Latin Versification, page 15:

     Thus reponens is an asonant rhyme to deprœlian in the following stanza.

• Not to be confused with assonant.

• “asonant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• nanosat

Borrowed from French assonant.

asonant m or n (feminine singular asonantă, masculine plural asonanți, feminine and neuter plural asonante)

1. (linguistics) assonant