cacophony

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Ancient Greek κᾰκός (kăkós)

Ancient Greek κακο- (kako-)

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.

Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́

Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)

Ancient Greek -ος (-os)

Ancient Greek κᾰκόφωνος (kăkóphōnos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek κᾰκοφωνῐ́ᾱ (kăkophōnĭ́ā)bor.

French cacophonieder.

English cacophony

From French cacophonie, from Ancient Greek κακοφωνία (kakophōnía), from κακός (kakós, “bad”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”), equivalent to caco- + -phony.

countable, uncountable A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance. 1921-1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator, Not more unutterable could have been the chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was centered all the supernal terror and unnatural despair of animate nature.