vocal
English
/ˈvəʊ.kəl/, /ˈvoʊ.kəl/
adj
Definitions
- Of or pertaining to the voice or speech
- Having a voice
- Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral
- Of or pertaining to a voice sound; spoken
- (phonetics) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals , , ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See voice, and vowel
- (phonetics) Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel
- loud; getting oneself heard.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French vocal borrowed from Latin vōcālis (voiced, having a voice, speaking, vocal).
Origin
Latin
vōcālis
Gloss
voiced, having a voice, speaking, vocal
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- audiovocal English
- bivocal English
- cricovocal English
- devocalise English
- devocalize English
- nonvocal English
- nonvocally English
- polyvocal English
- polyvocality English
- polyvocally English
- semivocal English
- subvocal English
- subvocalize English
- subvocally English
- tract English
- unvocal English
- vocal tract English
- vocalese English
- vocalise English
- vocalism English
- vocalist English
- vocalistic English
- vocality English
- vocalize English
- vocalizer English
- vocally English
- vocalness English
- vocoid English
- vocoidal English
- vocalitas Latin
- vocaliter Latin
- vōcālis Latin
- vocaal Dutch, Flemish
- vocal French
- vocal Spanish, Castilian
- vocal Portuguese
- vogal Portuguese
- ボーカリスト Japanese
- ボーカル Japanese
- wokalista Polish
- vocal Old French
- vouel Old French
- voyeul Old French
- vocal Catalan, Valencian
- bokalista Cebuano
- vocalis Middle High German
- vokali Swahili
- vocal Asturian
- vocâl Friulian