vocable

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈvəʊkəbl̩/    美 /ˈvoʊkəbl̩/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning.
    — Without words and almost with the seriousness of asylum nurses they at once set upon an unsavoury-looking matron who began to cry out Mediterranean vocables of distress.
  2. A syllable or sound without specific meaning, used together with or in place of actual words in a song.
    — Many Native American songs employ vocables, syllables that do not have referential meaning. These may be used to frame words or may be inserted among them; in some cases, they constitute the entire song text.
形容词 adj.
  1. Able to be uttered. not-comparable
    — a vocable marker

词形变化

vocables plural

词汇关系

相关词
vocabular vocabulary

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-der.
Latin voc(ā)
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.
Latin -bulum
Latin vocābulumder.
Middle French vocablebor.
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Latin vocābulumbor.
Middle English vocable
English vocable
From Middle English vocable, from Middle French vocable and its etymon, Latin vocābulum, from vocō (“to call”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-der.
Latin vocō
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English vocable
From Latin vocō + -able.
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