Literary notes about Consonant (AI summary)
In literature, the term “consonant” appears in both technical and metaphorical contexts. In technical discussions, it is often used to describe linguistic phenomena—such as patterns of sound formation, syllable division, and declensional patterns in Latin and Greek—where distinctions between consonant and vowel elements are crucial to grammatical analyses [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. At the same time, authors employ “consonant” in a figurative sense to evoke harmony, consistency, or adherence to established principles, suggesting that ideas, institutions, or moral frameworks align appropriately with broader theories or virtues [6, 7, 8, 9, 10]. This dual usage underscores the word’s versatility in conveying both precise phonetic meaning and abstract conceptual coherence.
- The third declension is called the Consonant or I -Declension, and its nouns are classified according to the way the stem ends.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Consonant Stems ( The Third Declension ), 467 - 512 .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane - Consonant stems that add no termination in the nominative are declined in the other cases exactly like those that add -s.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - In schoolbooks and most texts of the authors, the vowel u is printed U , u , and the consonant V , v .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane - Before a vowel in the same syllable it has the value of a consonant and is called I consonant .
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - And as it is more consonant to the rules of a just theory, to trust the Union with the care of its own existence,
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - If metre be superadded, all other parts must be made consonant with it.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Going back to those that are present in that assembly, repeat these my words consonant with morality.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - Hence, instead of one person, we must put a people; and the history will be found consonant to the truth.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 1 (of 6) by Jacob Bryant - All truths agree and are consonant with one another.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
