Meaning

noun the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech

noun the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract

noun a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance

originFrom Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx (“voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs, root noun from *wekʷ- (“to utter, speak”). Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vāc), Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps), Persian آواز (âvâz). Displaced native Middle English steven (“voice”) (from Old…

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