consonans

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.so.nans/, [ˈkõːs̠ɔnä̃ːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkon.so.nans/, [ˈkɔnsonäns]

Present active participle of cōnsonō (“I resound”). By surface analysis, con- (“with, together”) +‎ sonāns (“sounding”).

cōnsonāns (genitive cōnsonantis, adverb cōnsonanter); third-declension one-termination participle

1. agreeing, fit, suitable

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• cōnsonanter
• cōnsonō
• cōnsonus

Noun use of the participle cōnsonāns, in elliptical use for littera cōnsonāns (literally “resounding letter”). This is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek σύμφωνον (súmphōnon). The components of the Latin word do not exactly correspond to those of the Greek word; a word that more precisely corresponds to the Greek would be cōnsona.

cōnsonāns f (genitive cōnsonantis); third declension

1. (grammar) a consonant

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• littera cōnsonāns

• vōcālis

• “consonans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• consonans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.