audio

Etymology

From Latin audiō (“I hear; I listen”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.di.əʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.di.oʊ/
• (cot–caught merger, northern cities vowel shift) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.di.oʊ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Adjective

1. Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.
   • 1955, The Educational Screen - Volume 34, page 366:

     If you're more audio than visual, tune in on the "A-V Soap Opera" (page 375).

   • 1997, Arthur Myers, Communicating With Animals, →ISBN:

     I'm very audio, so I hear words.

   • 2010, Dick Lyles, Pearls of Perspicacity, →ISBN:

     For example, if the person uses visual predicates such as “I see” or “I can't picture that,” the most powerful influencers will respond by saying “Let me show you,” as opposed to “let me explain,” the latter predicate being more audio than visual.

Noun

audio (usually uncountable, plural audios)

1. A sound, or a sound signal
   • 2009 April 17, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times‎:

     Others wryly illustrate appropriated audios, like instructions for quacking like a duck or a letter from an angry airline passenger.

See also

• video

Anagrams

• Douai

Adjective

audio (invariable)

1. audio

Noun

audio m (invariable)

1. sound, volume, audio

Etymology

A compound of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewis (“clearly, manifestly”) (from the root *h₂ew- (“to see, perceive”)) and *dʰh₁-ye/o- (“to render”).

Cognates include Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “to perceive”) (also originally "to render manifest") and ἀΐω (aḯō, “to perceive, hear”), Hittite 𒌋𒀪𒄭 (u-uḫ-ḫi, “I see”) and Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “openly, manifestly, evidently”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.di.oː/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.di.o/

Verb

audiō (present infinitive audīre, perfect active audīvī, supine audītum); fourth conjugation

1. I hear, listen to
2. I attend, pay attention to

   Audisne me? ― Are you listening to me?

   Audio (Ecclesiastical)

   (file)

3. I accept, agree with, obey

See also

• auscultō

References

• audio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• audio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• audio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to know from hearsay: fando aliquid audivisse
    
  • I heard him say..: ex eo audivi, cum diceret
    
  • to have a good or bad reputation, be spoken well, ill of: bene, male audire (ab aliquo)
    
  • to attend Plato's lectures: audire Platonem, auditorem esse Platonis
    
  • to let those present fix any subject they like for discussion: ponere iubere, qua de re quis audire velit (Fin. 2. 1. 1)
    
  • I admit it, say on: audio, fateor
    
• audio in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 61

Noun

audio m (plural audios)

1. audio

Noun

audio ? (uncountable)

1. audio