vocable
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-der. Latin voc(ā) Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder. Latin -bulum Latin vocābulumder. Middle French vocablebor. ▲ Latin vocābulumbor. Middle English vocable English vocable From Middle English vocable, from Middle French vocable and its etymon, Latin vocābulum, from vocō (“to call”).
Definitions
A word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning.
- Without words and almost with the seriousness of asylum nurses they at once set upon an unsavoury-looking matron who began to cry out Mediterranean vocables of distress.
- At first the man puzzled; then he smiled. He pronounced a string of uncouth vocables.
A syllable or sound without specific meaning, used together with or in place of actual…
A syllable or sound without specific meaning, used together with or in place of actual words in a song.
- Many Native American songs employ vocables, syllables that do not have referential meaning. These may be used to frame words or may be inserted among them; in some cases, they constitute the entire song text.
Able to be uttered.
- a vocable marker
The neighborhood
- neighborvocabular
- neighborvocabulary
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at vocable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at vocable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at vocable
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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