Etymology

voicegram

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Today it means: a spectrogram of a person's voice Full definition →

Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma) ← English voice ← Middle English voys
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*wekʷ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*wṓkʷs
  3. Proto-Italic*wōks
  4. Latinvōcem
  5. Anglo-Normanvoiz
  6. Middle Englishvoys
  7. Englishvoice
  8. Ancient Greekγράμμα (grámma)
  9. English todayvoicegram

From voice + -gram.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.