vox

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See also: VOX and VOx

English

Etymology

From Latin vōx (“voice”). Doublet of voice.

Noun

vox (plural voxes)

  1. (music) The voice, especially one's singing voice; vocals.
  2. (broadcasting, informal) Ellipsis of vox pop.
    • 2018, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook:
      The junior can offer to do the voxes, gaining experience and sparing the senior journalist the trouble. Always remember to think how the clips will edit together. If you're the lucky junior sent to do voxes, there are some technical matters […]

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wōks, from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs (“speech, voice”) (with stem vōc- for voqu- from the nominative case), an o-grade root noun of *wekʷ- (“to speak”). Cognates include Sanskrit वाच् (vā́c), Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps), and Albanian ves.

Pronunciation

Noun

vōx f (genitive vōcis); third declension

  1. voice
  2. accent
  3. speech, remark, expression, (turn of) phrase
  4. word
  5. (grammar) voice; indicating the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vōx vōcēs
Genitive vōcis vōcum
Dative vōcī vōcibus
Accusative vōcem vōcēs
Ablative vōce vōcibus
Vocative vōx vōcēs

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References

  • “vox”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vox”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vox 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)
  • vox in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • an echo: vocis imago, or simply imago
    • the rocks re-echo: saxa voci respondent or resonant
    • all are unanimous: una et consentiens vox est
    • unanimously: una voce; uno ore
    • vocal and instrumental music: vocum et fidium (nervorum) cantus
    • a strong, loud voice: vox magna, clara (Sulla 10. 30)
    • a deep, high, thin, moderate voice: vox gravis, acuta, parva, mediocris
    • a melodious, ringing voice: vox canōra (Brut. 63. 234)
    • a gentle, subdued voice: vox lenis, suppressa, summissa
    • raising, lowering the voice: contentio, remissio vocis
    • no sound passed his lips: nulla vox est ab eo audita
    • to shout at the top of one's voice: magna voce clamare
    • what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quid significat, sonat haec vox?
    • what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quae notio or sententia subiecta est huic voci?
    • the word carere means..: vox, nomen carendi or simply carere hoc significat (Tusc. 1. 36. 88)
    • this word ends in a long syllable: haec vox longa syllaba terminatur, in longam syllabam cadit, exit
    • to use insulting expressions to any one: contumeliosis vocibus prosequi aliquem (vid. sect. VI. 11, note Prosequi...)
    • an oracle given by the Delphian Apollo (Apollo Pythius): vox Pythia (Pythica) (Liv. 1. 56)
    • (ambiguous) to speak, utter a sound: vocem mittere (sonitum reddere of things)
    • (ambiguous) to lower one's voice: vocem summittere
    • (ambiguous) to prevent some one from speaking: vocem intercludere (Just. 11. 8. 4)
    • (ambiguous) to let fall an expression: voces iacere (Sall. Iug. 11)
    • (ambiguous) insulting expressions: voces (verba) contumeliosae
  • 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 691f

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Noun

vox

  1. Alternative form of voxe
    • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 104:
      To hint dhicka cursed vox vrom Bloomere's lhoan.
      To hunt that cursed fox from Bloomer's land.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 104
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