The story
- Latin · borrowed fromaudient(em)“hearing”
- French · borrowed fromclair“clear”
- English todayclairaudient
Modelled on clairvoyant; from French clair (“clear”) + English audient, or, Latin audient(em) (“hearing”).
Words from the same roots
Frenchclair all →
clairaudienceclairgustanceclairsentience
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.