audiovocal

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adjective

Relating to orally produced sound.

OriginEnglish vocal ← Middle English vocal ← Latin vōcālis →
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Meanings

adjectiveaudiovocal (not comparable)
  1. not comparableRelating to orally produced sound.

    Studies of bats’ own escape behavior and how they employ their echolocation and audiovocal communication abilities under life threatening situations, however, are rare.

    2015 July 17, “Situational and Age-Dependent Decision Making during Life Threatening Distress in Myotis macrodactylus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ewis
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  3. Proto-Italic*awizdiō
  4. Latinaudi(ō)
  5. Englishaudio-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*wekʷ-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*wṓkʷs
  8. Proto-Italic*wōks
  9. Latinvōx
  10. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  12. Latinvōcālis
  13. Middle Englishvocal
  14. Englishvocal
  15. Englishaudiovocal

From audio- + vocal.

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Cite this entry
APA

audiovocal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/audiovocal

MLA

“audiovocal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/audiovocal. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “audiovocal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/audiovocal.

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