vocalis
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin vōcālis (“sounding, vocal”), clipping of mūsculus vōcālis (“vocal muscle”). Doublet of vocal.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /voʊˈkeɪ.lɪs/
- Rhymes: -eɪlɪs
Noun edit
vocalis (plural vocales)
- (anatomy) A triangular band of muscle that is the medial part of the thyroarytenoid muscle, originates in the lamina of the thyroid cartilage, and inserts into the vocal process of the arytenoid cartilage; it lies parallel with the vocal ligament to which it is adherent and modulates the tension of the true vocal cords.
Translations edit
References edit
- “vocalis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯oːˈkaː.lis/, [u̯oːˈkäːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /voˈka.lis/, [voˈkäːlis]
Etymology 1 edit
From vōx (“a voice, sound, tone”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjective-forming derivational suffix).
Adjective edit
vōcālis (neuter vōcāle, adverb vōcāliter); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (literally) uttering a voice, having a voice; speaking, sounding, sonorous, speaking, crying, singing, melodious; vocal
- (transferred sense):
Inflection edit
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | vōcālis | vōcāle | vōcālēs | vōcālia | |
Genitive | vōcālis | vōcālium | |||
Dative | vōcālī | vōcālibus | |||
Accusative | vōcālem | vōcāle | vōcālēs vōcālīs |
vōcālia | |
Ablative | vōcālī | vōcālibus | |||
Vocative | vōcālis | vōcāle | vōcālēs | vōcālia |
Derived terms edit
- sēmivocālis
- vōcālitās (noun)
- vōcāliter (adverb)
- vōcālēs
Descendants edit
Descendants of vocalis in other languages
Etymology 2 edit
Noun use of the adjective vōcālis, in elliptical use for littera vōcālis or lītera vōcālis (literally “sounding letter”), a calque of Ancient Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen).
Noun edit
vōcālis f (genitive vōcālis); third declension
- (grammar) vowel
- Synonyms: littera vōcālis, lītera vōcālis
Inflection edit
Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or -ī).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vōcālis | vōcālēs |
Genitive | vōcālis | vōcālium |
Dative | vōcālī | vōcālibus |
Accusative | vōcālem | vōcālēs vōcālīs |
Ablative | vōcāle vōcālī |
vōcālibus |
Vocative | vōcālis | vōcālēs |
Descendants edit
Descendants of vocalis in other languages
- → Aragonese: vocal
- → Asturian: vocal
- → Catalan: vocal
- Corsican: vucale
- → Czech: vokál
- → Danish: vokal
- → Dutch: vocaal
- →? Malay: vokal
- → Dutch: klinker (calque)
- → Friulian: vocâl
- → German: Vokal m
- → Interlingua: vocal
- → Italian: vocale
- → Latvian: vokālis
- → Macedonian: вокал (vokal)
- → Norwegian:
- Old French: voyeul, vouel
- → Old Irish: gutte (calque)
- Irish: guta
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- → Romanian: vocală
- → Romansch: vocal
- → Russian: гла́сный (glásnyj) (calque)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: vocal
- → Basque: bokal
- → Swedish: vokal
- → Ukrainian: голосний (holosnyj) (calque)
See also edit
References edit
- “vocalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vocalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vocalis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- vocalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle High German edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
vocalis f
- vowel
- 13th century. In: Seifried Helbling. Herausgegeben und erklärt von Joseph Seemüller, Halle a. S., 1886, p. 237f.:
- Quinque sunt vocales
A E I O U.
Diu êrst vocalis ist daz â.
[...]
Diu dritt vocalis ist daz î.
[...]
Diu fünft vocalis ist daz û.
[...]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 13th century. In: Das deutsche Kirchenlied von der ältesten Zeit bis zu Anfang des XVII. Jahrhunderts. Von Philipp Wackernagel. Zweiter Band, Leipzig, 1867, p. 209:
- Quinque sunt vocales, | A E I O U. | Diu erst vocalis ist daz a. | [...] | Diu dritt vocalis ist daz i. | [...] | Diu vünft vocalis ist daz u. | [...]
- 13th century. In: Seifried Helbling. Herausgegeben und erklärt von Joseph Seemüller, Halle a. S., 1886, p. 237f.:
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