sonatina
noun
sonatina is a noun meaning “A musical composition resembling a sonata but shorter or simpler” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-O-N-A-T-I-N-A, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of sonatina is sonatinas or sonatine.
What does sonatina mean?
noun
- 1
A musical composition resembling a sonata but shorter or simpler.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of sonatina
- sonatinas plural
- sonatine plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sonatina?
Sonatina appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Sonatina in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense piece resembling a sonata but shorter or simpler:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does sonatina come from?
Borrowed from Italian sonatina (literally “small sonata”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).