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vocality

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs Proto-Italic *wōks Latin vōx Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin vōcālisbor. Middle English vocal English vocal Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English vocality From vocal + -ity. Compare Latin vocalitas (“euphony”).

  1. derived from vocalitas — “euphony”
  2. derived from -ite English -ity English vocality From vocal + -ity
  3. derived from -itebor
  4. derived from vocal English vocal Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder
  5. derived from *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin vōcālisbor✻
  6. derived from *wṓkʷs Proto-Italic *wōks Latin vōx Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der✻
  7. derived from *wekʷ-der✻

Definitions

  1. The quality or degree of being vocal.

    • The admiral, fearing she might not confine herself to vocality, but begin to beat time with her fists, thought it right to take up a position; he therefore very dexterously took two steps in the rear, and mounted on a sofa[…]
    • 'On what special subject of the theorems and topics does your desire for vocality seem to be connected with?'

  2. The quality of being a vowel

    The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for vocality. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA