vox humana
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin vōx hūmāna.
Noun edit
vox humana (plural vox humanas)
- An organ stop having some resemblance to the human voice.
- 1940, John Betjeman, “In Westminster Abbey”, in Old Lights for New Chancels:
- Let me take this other glove off / As the vox humana swells, / And the beauteous fields of Eden / Bask beneath the Abbey bells.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯oːks huːˈmaː.na/, [u̯oːks̠ huːˈmäːnä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /voks uˈma.na/, [vɔks uˈmäːnä]
Noun edit
vōx hūmāna f (genitive vōcis hūmānae); third declension
- the human voice
- what a person would say
Declension edit
Third-declension noun with a first-declension adjective.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vōx hūmāna | vōcēs hūmānae |
| Genitive | vōcis hūmānae | vōcum hūmānārum |
| Dative | vōcī hūmānae | vōcibus hūmānīs |
| Accusative | vōcem hūmānam | vōcēs hūmānās |
| Ablative | vōce hūmānā | vōcibus hūmānīs |
| Vocative | vōx hūmāna | vōcēs hūmānae |