Masculine

altisonante

Meaning

  1. (by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine) high-sounding
  2. (broadly, by-personal-gender, derogatory, feminine, masculine) pompous

Hyphenated as
al‧ti‧so‧nàn‧te
Pronounced as (IPA)
/al.ti.soˈnan.te/
Etymology

From Latin altisonus, reshaped according to the present participle sonante (“sounding”).

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