Consono, cónsonas, pen. cor. consonâre. Plaut.To make sound togither: to accorde, agree, or be like to.Consonat clamor.Liui. Consonante clamore nominatim Quintium orare. They all togither with one agreeable voyce desiced Ouintius, &c.Nemus consonat.Virg.All the wood ringeth. Consonare sibi.Senec.Not to chaunge or vary: to be alway like himselfe.Consonat moribus oratio.Cic.His talke agreeth very well with, or is very like his maners.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
con-sŏno, ŭi, 1, v. n., to sound at the same time or together, to sound aloud, to resound (class., but rare till the Aug. period; not in Cic.). I.Lit.A. In gen.: apes evolaturae consonant vehementer, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 30: cum omne tibiarum genus organorumque consonuit, fit concentus ex dissonis, Sen. Ep. 84, 10: tubae utrimque canunt: contra consonat terra, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 73; so of places, Verg. A. 8, 305: tum plausu virūm Consonat omne nemus, id. ib. 5, 149; Ov. M. 7, 451; Vitr. 5, 8, 1; Tac. A. 14, 32: consonuere cornicines funebri strepitu, Petr. 78, 6: consonante clamore nominatim Quinctium orare ut, etc., Liv. 36, 34, 7.—B. Esp., in rhetor. 1. Of harmony in discourse, Quint. 9, 3, 73; 9, 3, 45; 9, 3, 77.—2. Of similar terminations of words, Quint. 9, 3, 75.—II.Trop., to agree, accord, harmonize (postAug.): quomodo inter se acutae ac graves voces consonent, Sen. Ep. 88, 9: quomodo animus meus secum consonet, id. ib: sibi in faciendis ac non faciendis, Quint. 2, 20, 5: sibi (tenor vitae), Sen. Ep. 31, 8: Capricorno (Virginis astrum), Manil. 2, 281; 2, 622: hoc etenim contractui bonae fidei consonat, Dig. 19, 1, 48 fin.; 35, 1, 90.—Hence, consŏnans, antis, P. a.A. In gram., subst. (sc. littera; hence, fem.), a consonant, Quint. 1, 4, 6; 1, 7, 9 et saep.—B.Trop., agreeing, consonant, fit, suitable (post-Aug. and rare): consonanti contractui bonae fidei, Dig. 12, 2, 34, 8 al.— Adv.: consŏnanter, consonantly, agreeably: consonantissime ad harmoniam composita, Vitr. 6, 1, 6.