vox

See also: VOX and VOx

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs (“speech, voice”), an o-grade root noun of *wekʷ- (“to speak”). Cognates include Sanskrit वाच् (vā́c) and Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /woːks/

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Noun

vōx f (genitive vōcis); third declension

1. voice
2. accent
3. speech, remark
4. (grammar) voice; indicating the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses
5. vocative singular of vox

Inflection

Third declension.

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	vōx	vōcēs
genitive	vōcis	vōcum
dative	vōcī	vōcibus
accusative	vōcem	vōcēs
ablative	vōce	vōcibus
vocative	vōx	vōcēs

Derived terms

• vocalis
• vocō
• vociferari
• vōcula
• vōx populī

Descendants

• Aromanian: boatse
• Asturian: voz
• Catalan: veu
• Dalmatian: baud
• English: voice
• French: voix
• Friulian: vôs
• Galician: voz
• Istriot: boûz
• Italian: voce

• Jèrriais: vouaix
• Occitan: votz
• Portuguese: voz
• Romanian: voce, boace
• Romansch: vusch
• Sardinian: boghe
• Sicilian: buci, vuci
• Spanish: voz
• Venetian: vóxe
• Walloon: vwès

References

• Michiel de Vaan (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, page 691f
• vox in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879