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son

/sɔ̃/

noun, masculine/sɔ̃/plural: sons

sound; A piece (of music); a (musical) work; an opus.

Le son de ce piano est agréable.The sound of this piano is nice.

Synonyms: musique, morceau

Inherited from Old French son, suen, suon, from Latin sonus (the current form may be remade after or influenced by sonner).

noun, masculine/sɔ̃/plural: sons

bran

Ceci est du pain de son.This bread is done with bran.

Inherited from Latin secundus (presumably through an earlier Old French form *seon; compare an attested Medieval Latin seonno, seonnum). Cognate with Catalan segó, Old Occitan segon. The meaning derives from the fact that bran results from a second sifting of flour. Doublet of second, a borrowing.