But Morita renamed it Sony 12 years later in a typically farsighted move, finding a Western root for the name in sonus, the Latin word for sound. β Unknown (2008)
It's actually a combination of 'sonus,' a Latin word for sound and β Unknown (2009)
Sony is claimed to be derived from both "sonus", Latin for sound, and "sonny", because they liked the suggestion of youth that it provided. β Unknown (2005)
Within a few years, the company's founders wanted a new name, so they combined sonus, Latin for "sound," with "Sonny," the term of endearment for a young boy. β Unknown (2009)
[2491] Omnes se terrent aurae, sonus excitat omnis. β Unknown (2007)
Tanta gratia vocis famam conciliabat, saith Petronius [5079] in his fragment of pure impurities, I mean his Satyricon, tam dulcis sonus permulcebat aera, ut putares inter auras cantare β Unknown (2007)
Behind a wall of glass, on a prominent pedestal, stands one of the original tape recorders produced in 1950 by a new enterprise called Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Co. (thankfully, the familiar name combining the Latin sonus and "sonny boy" came a few years later). β Unknown (2007)
Leucippe went in, suavissimus exaudiri sonus caepit Austin de civ. β Unknown (2007)
A few years later I was in Japan with Susan Sontag, and I met Mr. [Akio] Morita, the head of Sony, and an adviser who had come up with the company's name β from sonus, the Latin for 'sound.' β Colacello, Bob (2006)
SC's pet theory is that someone misspelled "Sonny" when silkscreening it onto a batch of parts, and the "sonus" justification was invented post hoc, to save money on having to make more. β Unknown (2005)
* Ergo tonitrua ad sermones Domini retulit, quorum in omnem terram exivit sonus; Spiritum autem hoc loco animam, quam suscepit rationabilem et perfectam intelligimus. β 1616-1683 (1967)
Romanae linguae in hoc erit moderatio, ut exilis ejus sonus sit, ubi ab ea verbum incipit, ut _ite_, aut pinguior, ubi in ea desinit verbum, ut _habui_, _tenui_; medium quendam sonum inter E et I habet, ubi in medio sermone est, ut _hominem_. β Frances Ellen Lord (N/A)
Nam ut color oculorum indicio, sapor palati, odor narium dinoscitur, ita sonus aurium arbitrio subjectus est. β Frances Ellen Lord (N/A)
C autem et nomen habuisse G et usum praestitisse, quod nunc _Caius_ per C, et _Cneius_ per CN, quamvis utrimque syllabae sonus G exprimat, scribuntur. β Frances Ellen Lord (N/A)
Fresonibus igitur tributum daturis mos erat singulos nummos in hujus _scuti cavum_ conjicere, e quibus eos duntaxat in censum regium ratio computantis eligeret, qui eminus exatoris aures clarioris soni crepitaculo perstrinxissent quo evenit, ut id solum Γ¦s quΓ¦stor in fiscum supputando colligeret, cujus casum remotiore auris indicio persensisset, cujus vero obscurior sonus citra computantis defuisset auditum, recipiebatur quidem in fiscum (!!!), sed nullum summΓ¦ prΓ¦stabat augmentum. β Various (N/A)
Ipse sonus sic debet sonare, quomodo sonat I (i without macron to show short) littera. β Frances Ellen Lord (N/A)
Si longa est, debet sonus ipse intra palatum sonare, ut si dices _orator_, quasi intra sonat, intra palatum. β Frances Ellen Lord (N/A)
Somne, tuis? tacet omne pecus volucresque feraeque et simulant fessos curvata cacumina somnos, nec trucibus fluviis idem sonus; occidit horror aequoris, et terris maria acclinata quiescunt. septima iam rediens Phoebe mihi respicit aegras stare genas; totidem Oetaeae Paphiaeque revisunt lampades et totiens nostros Tithonia questus praeterit et gelido spargit miserata flagello. unde ego sufficiam? non si mihi lumina mille quae sacer alterna tantum statione tenebat β Harold Edgeworth Butler (1914)
The Mozarabic Liturgy makes use of an expressive word: sonus, as if to signify the bell that calls to the church. β 1840-1916 (1913)
girl : Iβm at the police station, help me !
Sonu: [Just say that] youβre friends with β[Poli] Sonuβ and theyβll let you go, [thank me later]. β Anushkaaa (2021)
[Aww], she's so Sonu! β Vermalina (2011)
[Chester] is a sonu. β Chester (2004)
[thas] so sonu, [said] [Zeke] β Zeke (2004)
He pulled a [Sonu], his friends [got stuck] in a fight while he [sonu]`d his way to [the safehouse]. β Z4pp3r (2009)
Sonu β Sonu Ps (2021)
E.g. [She/he]: I'm in police station help me!
Sonu: Makes a call to someone
She/he: [Thanks a lot]
Sonu: [Never mind] β XXX TENNESSEE (2021)
Sonu is an [uneducated] [human] β Lilimii (2021)
All [politicians] are [sonu sood] β Udtateer (2021)
When she comes home from work [sonu puppa] [wags] his [tail]! β Prikachu (2022)
