vocalize
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vocalize
- /ˈvoʊ.kə.laɪz/ US
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Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs
Proto-Italic *wōks
Latin vōx
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin vōcālisbor.
Middle English vocal
English vocal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English vocalize
From vocal + -ize.
verb vocalizes · vocalizing · vocalized · vocalise
- To express with the voice, to utter. Following the modern spirit, the real poems of the present, ever solidifying and expanding into the future, must vocalize the vastness and splendor and reality with which scientism has invested man and the universe,[…]
- To produce noises or calls from the throat. We could hear the monkeys vocalizing, though we could not see them.
- To sing without using words.
- To turn a consonant into a vowel. In Hong Kong English, /l/ may be vocalized at the end of a syllable.
- To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless.
- To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)
