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Sonnet

2 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a fourteen-line poem with a traditional rhyme scheme, often about love
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Stage 1 of 2
sonetto
Italian · medieval
"a little sound, a little song"
literally a little sound, a diminutive of suono (sound)
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Stage 2 of 2
sonnet
English · 1557
"a fourteen-line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme"
settled as the English word for the fourteen-line poetic form
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