vox

See also: VOX and VOx

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wōks, 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, expression, (turn of) phrase
4. (grammar) voice; indicating the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses

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 Basque: boz Catalan: veu Dalmatian: baud English: voice French: voix Friulian: vôs

Galician: voz Istriot: boûz, vuze Italian: voce Jèrriais: vouaix Ladino: boz 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