audio

English

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audio

Wikipedia

Etymology

Clipping of audio-. Cognates include Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “perceive, notice”) whence English aesthetic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.di.əʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.di.oʊ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.di.oʊ/

Adjective

audio (comparative more audio, superlative most audio)

1. Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.
   • 1955, The Educational Screen - Volume 34, page 366:

     If you're more audio than visual, tune in on the "A-V Soap Opera" (page 375).

   • 1997, Arthur Myers, Communicating With Animals, →ISBN:

     I'm very audio, so I hear words.

   • 2010, Dick Lyles, Pearls of Perspicacity, →ISBN:

     For example, if the person uses visual predicates such as “I see” or “I can't picture that,” the most powerful influencers will respond by saying “Let me show you,” as opposed to “let me explain,” the latter predicate being more audio than visual.

Translations

Noun

audio (usually uncountable, plural audios)

1. (uncountable) A sound, or a sound signal.
   • 2009 April 17, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times‎:

     Others wryly illustrate appropriated audios, like instructions for quacking like a duck or a letter from an angry airline passenger.

2. (countable) A piece of sound that is recorded electronically.

   I DMed him an audio of myself singing the South Park intro.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• video

References

“audio”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• Douai

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin audiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯.di.oː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: au‧dio

Noun

audio c (plural audio's)

1. audio.

   Synonym: geluid

Descendants

• → Indonesian: audio

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English audio).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯dio/,
• Rhymes: -ɑudio
• Syllabification^(key): au‧di‧o

Noun

audio

1. (uncommon outside compounds) audio

Declension

Synonyms

• ääni

Derived terms

Further reading

• “audio”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.djo/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

audio

1. audio
   • 2011, Christian Depover, Thierry Karsenti, Enseigner avec les technologies: Favoriser les apprentissages, développer des compétences, PUQ, →ISBN:

     La baladodiffusion est ainsi utilisée comme outil à potentiel cognitif, parce qu’elle permet, relativement facilement, de diffuser un contenu audio ou vidéo qui peut, par la suite, être écouté ou vu à tout moment par l’apprenant.

     Therefore, podcasting is used as a tool for cognitive potential, because it allows for the relatively easy distribution of audio or video content, which, as a result, can be listened to or watched at any moment by the learner.

Derived terms

• livre audio

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

audio

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

From Dutch audio, from Latin audiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: au‧dio

Adjective

audio

1. audio: focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.

Noun

audio (first-person possessive audioku, second-person possessive audiomu, third-person possessive audionya)

1. audio: a sound, or a sound signal

Related terms

Further reading

• “audio” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.djo/
• Rhymes: -awdjo
• Hyphenation: àu‧dio

Adjective

audio (invariable)

1. audio

Noun

audio m (invariable)

1. sound, volume, audio

Related terms

• audio-
• auditivo
• auditorio
• audizione
• udire

See also

• video

References

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *awizdjō, a compound of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewis (“clearly, manifestly”) (from the root *h₂ew- (“to see, perceive”)) and *dʰh₁-ye/o- (“to render”).

Cognates include Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “to perceive”) (also originally "to render manifest"), whence English aesthetic, and ἀΐω (aḯō, “to perceive, hear”), Hittite 𒌋𒀪𒄭 (u-uḫ-ḫi, “I see”), Proto-Germanic *awiz (“obvious”) and Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “openly, manifestly, evidently”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.di.oː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.di.o/,

  • Audio (modern italianate)

    (file)

Verb

audiō (present infinitive audīre, perfect active audīvī or audiī, supine audītum); fourth conjugation

1. to hear, listen to

   Synonym: exaudio

2. to attend, pay attention to

   Audīsne mē? ― Are you listening to me?

3. to accept, agree with, obey
4. to perceive or understand, learn (by hearing)

   Synonyms: agnōscō, cognōscō, inveniō, sentiō, cōnsciō, sapiō, sciō, nōscō, scīscō, intellegō, percipiō, discernō, inveniō, tongeō, cernō, exaudiō

   Antonyms: ignōrō, nesciō

Conjugation

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

See also

• auscultō

References

• “audio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “audio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• audio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to know from hearsay: fando aliquid audivisse
    
  • I heard him say..: ex eo audivi, cum diceret
    
  • to have a good or bad reputation, be spoken well, ill of: bene, male audire (ab aliquo)
    
  • to attend Plato's lectures: audire Platonem, auditorem esse Platonis
    
  • to let those present fix any subject they like for discussion: ponere iubere, qua de re quis audire velit (Fin. 2. 1. 1)
    
  • I admit it, say on: audio, fateor
    
• audio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 61

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

audio

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.djɔ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -awdjɔ
• Syllabification: au‧dio

Adjective

audio (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)

1. (postpositive) audio

Related terms

Further reading

• audio in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• audio in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French audio.

Adjective

audio m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. audio

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English audio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaudjo/
• Rhymes: -audjo
• Syllabification: au‧dio

Noun

audio m (plural audios)

1. audio

Further reading

• “audio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Noun

audio c or n (uncountable)

1. audio