(adjective) : dis-sŏnus, a, um, , opp. consonus
* Dissonant, discordant, confused (not anteAug.; nor in Verg., Ov., or Hor.).
* Lit.: chorus canentium dissonum quiddam canere,Col. 12, 2, 4; so, clamores,Liv. 4, 28; Plin. Ep. 3, 20, 4: voces (opp. congruens clamor),Liv. 30, 34: questus,Tac. A. 1, 34: vapor,i. e. making a dissonant sound,Plin. 2, 43, 43, § 112.
* In gen., disagreeing, different: gentes sermone moribusque,Liv. 1, 18; cf.: linguā agmina,Sil. 16, 19: linguis castra,id. 3, 221; linguis turba,Claud. Laud. Stil 1, 152: diversi postulantium habitus ac dissonae voces,Plin. Pan. 56, 6: ora vulgi,Luc. 3, 289: nationes,Amm. 23, 6 et saep.: venustas (opp. jucunde consonat),Quint. 9, 3, 72: cursus solis,Plin. 36, 10, 15, § 73: carmina,i. e. in elegiac measure,Stat. S. 2, 2, 114: nationes,Mart. Cap. 2, § 203: elementa,id. 9, § 912 et saep.—With ab: nihil apud Latinos dissonum ab Romana re,Liv. 8, 8, 2.—*
* Trop., discordant, jarring: collidens dissona corda Seditio,Sil. 11, 45.

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