vocalize
verbEtymology
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 *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English vocalize From vocal + -ize.
- derived from -iserbor
- derived from -izōder
- derived from *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin vōcālisbor✻
- derived from *wekʷ-der✻
Definitions
To express with the voice, to utter.
- Following the modern spirit, the real poems of the present, ever solidifying and expanding into the future, must vocalize the vastness and splendor and reality with which scientism has invested man and the universe,[…]
To produce noises or calls from the throat.
- We could hear the monkeys vocalizing, though we could not see them.
To sing without using words.
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To turn a consonant into a vowel.
- In Hong Kong English, /l/ may be vocalized at the end of a syllable.
To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless.
To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)
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- synonymoutspeakof humans
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at vocalize. 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 vocalize. 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 vocalize
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA