vocalis

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vōcālis (“sounding, vocal”), clipping of mūsculus vōcālis (“vocal muscle”). Doublet of vocal.

Pronunciation

Noun

vocalis (plural vocales)

  1. (anatomy) A triangular band of muscle that is the medial part of the thyroarytenoid muscle, originates in the lamina of the thyroid cartilage, and inserts into the vocal process of the arytenoid cartilage; it lies parallel with the vocal ligament to which it is adherent and modulates the tension of the true vocal cords.

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From vōx (“a voice, sound, tone”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjective-forming derivational suffix).

Adjective

vōcālis (neuter vōcāle, adverb vōcāliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. (literally) uttering a voice, having a voice; speaking, sounding, sonorous, speaking, crying, singing, melodious; vocal
  2. (transferred sense):
    1. (causative, rare, poetic) making vocal, causing or inspiring speech or song
    2. prophesying
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Inflection

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative vōcālis vōcāle vōcālēs vōcālia
Genitive vōcālis vōcālium
Dative vōcālī vōcālibus
Accusative vōcālem vōcāle vōcālēs
vōcālīs 		vōcālia
Ablative vōcālī vōcālibus
Vocative vōcālis vōcāle vōcālēs vōcālia
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants of vocalis in other languages
  • → Catalan: vocal
  • → Dutch: vocaal
  • → English: vocal, vocalis
  • → German: vokal
  • → Italian: vocale
  • → Old French: vocal
  • → Portuguese: vocal
  • → Romanian: vocal
  • → Spanish: vocal
  • → Swedish: vokal

Etymology 2

Noun use of the adjective vōcālis, in elliptical use for littera vōcālis or lītera vōcālis (literally “sounding letter”), a calque of Ancient Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen).

Noun

vōcālis f (genitive vōcālis); third declension

  1. (grammar) vowel
    Synonyms: littera vōcālis, lītera vōcālis
Inflection

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vōcālis vōcālēs
Genitive vōcālis vōcālium
Dative vōcālī vōcālibus
Accusative vōcālem vōcālēs
vōcālīs
Ablative vōcāle
vōcālī 		vōcālibus
Vocative vōcālis vōcālēs
Descendants
Descendants of vocalis in other languages

See also

References

  • “vocalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vocalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vocalis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • vocalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle High German

Etymology

From Latin vōcālis.

Noun

vocalis f

  1. vowel
    • 13th century. In: Seifried Helbling. Herausgegeben und erklärt von Joseph Seemüller, Halle a. S., 1886, p. 237f.:
      Quinque sunt vocales
      A E I O U.
      Diu êrst vocalis ist daz â.
      [...]
      Diu dritt vocalis ist daz î.
      [...]
      Diu fünft vocalis ist daz û.
      [...]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 13th century. In: Das deutsche Kirchenlied von der ältesten Zeit bis zu Anfang des XVII. Jahrhunderts. Von Philipp Wackernagel. Zweiter Band, Leipzig, 1867, p. 209:
      Quinque sunt vocales, | A E I O U. | Diu erst vocalis ist daz a. | | Diu dritt vocalis ist daz i. | | Diu vünft vocalis ist daz u. |

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