audio Latin · revision 3861

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=Livius Andronicus|origins=itc-pro *awizdje/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈau̯.di.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈaːu̯.di.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''audiō''' (present infinitive audīre, perfect active audīvī or audiī, supine audītum); fourth conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*awizdje/o-|t=to hear]].^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan, following Pedersen and Solmsen, takes this as a compound of [[ine-pro|*h₂eu-is|t=clearly, manifestly]] and [[ine-pro|*dʰh₁-ie/o-|t=to render]], so “to make manifest”, which best explains both [[m|la|audīre]] and [[oboedio|alt=oboedīre]] “to obey”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary derives the first part from a root [[ine-pro|*h₂ew-|t=to see, perceive]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ Cognate with [[sa|आविस्|tr=āvíṣ|t=evidently]], [[grc|ἀΐω|tr=aḯō|t=to perceive, hear]] and [[grc|αἰσθάνομαι|tr=aisthánomai|t=to perceive]], and with [[hit|au-i / u-|t=to see, look]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Livius Andronicus onwards.^(de Vaan 2008) In Plautus a man complains “my head aches, I can't hear, I can't see properly”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to hear, to have the use of one's ears, and to hear a voice or sound, then to hear with understanding.^(OLD 2012) With ''bene'' or ''male'' it meant to be well or badly spoken of.^(OLD 2012) It meant to listen to a teacher or a lecture, to give an audience to someone, to learn or be told of something, and to know only by hearsay.^(OLD 2012)

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+ It meant to pay attention to, to heed, to follow someone's advice or orders, and ''audio'' alone meant “I agree, very well”.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein contrasts it, as hearing as a passive sensation, with [[ausculto|alt=auscultāre]], to listen on purpose.^(Döderlein 1874) English ''audience'' comes from its derivative ''audientia'', and ''audio'' was formed from it in 1934.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 280/260–before 200 BC – Livius Andronicus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of hearing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses ''audio'' as “very well”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of hearing a speaker's words.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English ''audience'' comes from its derivative ''audientia''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1934 – English ''audio'' is formed from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|hear]], to be able to hear.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To hear (a voice, a sound, a person).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To hear with understanding.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''bene'' (''male'') ''audire'': to be well (badly) spoken of.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|listen]] to (a teacher, a lecture); to give an [[m|en|audience]] to.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To learn, be told of; to know by hearsay.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To heed, pay attention to.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To follow the advice of, [[m|en|obey]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''audio'': I agree, very well.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[audībilis]]

+ * [[audientia]]

+ * [[audītiō]]

+ * [[audito]]

+ * [[audītor]]

+ * [[audītus]]

+ * [[coaudiō]]

+ * [[exaudiō]]

+ * [[inaudiō]]

+ * [[inaudītus]]

+ * [[obaudiō]]

+ * [[oboediō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[audītiuncula]]

+ * [[audītōriālis]]

+ * [[audītōrium]]

+ * [[audītōrius]]

+ * [[auscultō]]

+ * [[auris]]

+ * [[en|audience]]

+ * [[en|audio]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein separates ''audire'', hearing as a mere sensation, from ''auscultare'', hearing attentively by an act of will.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}