vox humana
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English
Etymology
From Latin vōx hūmāna.
Noun
vox humana (plural vox humanas)
- An organ stop having some resemblance to the human voice.
- 1940, John Betjeman, “In Westminster Abbey”, in Old Lights for New Chancels:
- Let me take this other glove off / As the vox humana swells, / And the beauteous fields of Eden / Bask beneath the Abbey bells.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯oːks huːˈmaː.na/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /voks uˈma.na/,
Noun
vōx hūmāna f (genitive vōcis hūmānae); third declension
- the human voice
- what a person would say
Declension
Third-declension noun with a first-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vōx hūmāna | vōcēs hūmānae |
| genitive | vōcis hūmānae | vōcum hūmānārum |
| dative | vōcī hūmānae | vōcibus hūmānīs |
| accusative | vōcem hūmānam | vōcēs hūmānās |
| ablative | vōce hūmānā | vōcibus hūmānīs |
| vocative | vōx hūmāna | vōcēs hūmānae |