Meanings
- Of the sound, voice, or speech sound of the specified type.
Micrŏphōnus, a, um. (Μικρός, small; φωνή, the voice.) Med., Physiol. Having a slender weak voice: micropho′nous.
1857, R[obert] G[ray] Mayne, An Expository Lexicon of the Terms, Ancient and Modern, in Medical and General Science; […], London: John Churchill, […], published 1860, →OCLC, page 698, column 12 more examples
What the writer says on the subject of accent, as it may be marked on that uniphonous instrument the drum, illustrates what had been written on the subject a century ago, by Malcolm; […]
1832, “The Westminster Review”, in The Harmonicon, part I ([…]), London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, […], →OCLC, page 241, column 2Notwithstanding the increasing attempts of the clergy to exclude the people from participating in the services of the Church, the laity continued for a long time the practice of hypophonous chants, which consisted of responses to the intonation, the reading, and the prayere of the clergy, and of the so-called Acroteleutia, or responses to the psalms sung by the clergy.
1860, [Johann Heinrich] Kurtz, translated by J[ohn] H[enry] A[ugustus] Bomberger, “Administration of Public Worship”, in History of the Christian Church to the Reformation. […], Edinburgh: T[homas] & T[homas] Clark, […], →OCLC, page 232Synonyms: -phonic
Synonyms & antonyms
suffixOf the sound, voice, or speech sound of the specified type.
Origin
Adapted borrowing of Ancient Greek -φωνος (-phōnos) + -ous. By surface analysis, -phone + -ous.
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