Latin

Noun

vōx f ‎(genitive vōcis); third declension

1. voice
2. accent
3. speech, remark, expression, (turn of) phrase
4. word
5. (grammar) voice; indicating the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses

Inflection

Third declension.

Synonyms

• (word): verbum, vocabulum
• (grammar: voice): genus verbi

Derived terms

• vocalis
• vocō
• vociferari
• vōcula
• vōx populī

Descendants

References

• vox in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vox in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• VOX in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vox”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • an echo: vocis imago, or simply imago
    
  • the rocks re-echo: saxa voci respondent or resonant
    
  • all are unanimous: una et consentiens vox est
    
  • unanimously: una voce; uno ore
    
  • vocal and instrumental music: vocum et fidium (nervorum) cantus
    
  • a strong, loud voice: vox magna, clara (Sulla 10. 30)
    
  • a deep, high, thin, moderate voice: vox gravis, acuta, parva, mediocris
    
  • a melodious, ringing voice: vox canōra (Brut. 63. 234)
    
  • a gentle, subdued voice: vox lenis, suppressa, summissa
    
  • raising, lowering the voice: contentio, remissio vocis
    
  • no sound passed his lips: nulla vox est ab eo audita
    
  • to shout at the top of one's voice: magna voce clamare
    
  • what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quid significat, sonat haec vox?
    
  • what is the meaning, the original sense of this word: quae notio or sententia subiecta est huic voci?
    
  • the word carere means..: vox, nomen carendi or simply carere hoc significat (Tusc. 1. 36. 88)
    
  • this word ends in a long syllable: haec vox longa syllaba terminatur, in longam syllabam cadit, exit
    
  • to use insulting expressions to any one: contumeliosis vocibus prosequi aliquem (vid. sect. VI. 11, note Prosequi...)
    
  • an oracle given by the Delphian Apollo (Apollo Pythius): vox Pythia (Pythica) (Liv. 1. 56)
    
  • (ambiguous) to speak, utter a sound: vocem mittere (sonitum reddere of things)
    
  • (ambiguous) to lower one's voice: vocem summittere
    
  • (ambiguous) to prevent some one from speaking: vocem intercludere (Just. 11. 8. 4)
    
  • (ambiguous) to let fall an expression: voces iacere (Sall. Iug. 11)
    
  • (ambiguous) insulting expressions: voces (verba) contumeliosae
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 691f