英语词汇audible的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	audible
词源	audible adj. "able to be heard," 1520s, from French audible and directly from Medieval Latin audibilis "that may be heard," from Latin audire "to hear" (from PIE root au- "to perceive"). Related: Audibly; audibility; audibleness. As a noun, "thing capable of being heard," from 1610s. The U.S. football sense of "signal called at the line of scrimmage to change the play called in the huddle" is by 1958. Entries linking to audible* *au- Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to perceive." It forms all or part of: aesthete; aesthetic; anesthesia; audible; audience; audio; audio-; audit; audition; auditor; auditorium; auditory; hyperaesthesia; kinesthetic; oyer; oyez; obedient; obey; paraesthesia; synaesthesia. It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit avih, Avestan avish "openly, evidently;" Greek aisthanesthai "to feel;" Latin audire "to hear;" Old Church Slavonic javiti "to reveal." inaudible adj. c. 1600, "unable to be heard," from Late Latin inaudibilis "inaudible," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + audibilis (see audible). Used in Middle English in the sense "unfit to be heard" (mid-15c.). Related: Inaudibly. Classical Latin had inauditus "unheard, unheard of." updated on September 30, 2022
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audible adj.

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