audio

See also: Audio, áudio, àudio, aŭdio, and audio-

English

Etymology

Clipping of audio-. Cognates include Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “perceive, notice”) whence English aesthetic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.di.əʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.di.oʊ/, [ˈɔ.ɾi.oʊ]

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.di.oʊ/, [ˈɑ.ɾi.oʊ]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.di.əʉ/

Adjective

audio (comparative more audio, superlative most audio)

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.

Translations

focused on audible sound

• Arabic: سَمْعِيّ (samʕiyy), أُودْيُو (ʔūdyū)
• Catalan: àudio (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 音頻 / 音频 (zh) (yīnpín), 伴音 (bànyīn)

• Estonian: heli-, kuuldav
• Finnish: ääni-, audio-
• French: audio (fr)
• German: Audio-
• Greek: ήχου (el) (íchou), ηχητικός (el) (ichitikós), ακουστικός (el) (akoustikós)
• Haitian Creole: odyo
• Hebrew: שמע (he) (shamâ)
• Hungarian: hang- (hu)
• Indonesian: audio (id)
• Irish: fuaim (ga)
• Japanese: オーディオ (ja) (ōdio)
• Korean: 오디오 (odio)
• Kyrgyz: угум (ugum)
• Maltese: awdjo
• Maori: ororongo
• Persian: شنیداری (fa) (šenidâri)
• Polish: audio (pl) (postpostive)
• Portuguese: auditivo (pt)
• Romanian: audio (ro)
• Russian: а́удио- (ru) (áudio-), звуково́й (ru) (zvukovój)
• Serbo-Croatian: zvučni, audio
• Spanish: de sonido, de audio
• Turkish: ses (tr)
• Ukrainian: а́вдіо n (ávdio), а́удіо n (áudio), звукови́й (zvukovýj)
• Vietnamese: âm thanh (vi), âm tần
• Welsh: sain (cy)

Noun

audio (usually uncountable, plural audios)

1. (uncountable) Sound, or a sound signal.
2. (countable) A piece of sound that is recorded electronically.

   I DMed him an audio of myself singing the South Park intro.

   • 2009 April 17, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

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

Derived terms

• audiation
• audioboard
• audio-book
• audio book
• audio card
• audio cassette
• audio CD
• audiocentric
• audiocentrism
• audio clip
• audio coil
• audioconference
• audio-description
• audio DVD
• audio frequency
• audio guide
• audio mastering
• audio mining
• audio play
• audio tape
• audiotape
• audio tour
• audiotrack
• audio typing
• audio-typist
• audio typist
• audio vérité
• audio-visual
• audism
• described audio
• digital audio workstation
• dual audio
• nonaudio
• sub-audio frequency

 

Related terms

sound or signal

• audible
• audio-
• audiobook
• audio commentary
• audio description
• audio file
• audiovisual
• audition
• auditive
• auditory
• dysaudia

Translations

a sound or a sound signal

• Esperanto: aŭdio, sono (eo)
• Finnish: ääni (fi), audio (fi)
• Galician: audio m
• Greek: ήχος (el) (íchos)
• Hindi: श्रव्य (hi) (śravya)
• Hungarian: hanganyag (hu)
• Icelandic: hljóð (is) n
• Indonesian: audio (id)
• Japanese: オーディオ (ja) (ōdio)
• Kyrgyz: угум (ugum)
• Norman: audgo m
• Portuguese: áudio (pt) m
• Spanish: audio (es) m

See also

• video

References

“audio”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• Douai

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin audiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯.di.oː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: au‧dio

Noun

audio c (plural audio's)

1. audio

   Synonym: geluid

Descendants

• → Indonesian: audio

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English audio).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯dio/, [ˈɑ̝u̯dio̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑudio
• Hyphenation^(key): au‧dio

Noun

audio

1. (uncommon outside compounds) audio

Declension

Inflection of audio (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation)
nominative		audio	audiot
genitive		audion	audioiden audioitten
partitive		audiota	audioita
illative		audioon	audioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		audio	audiot
accusative	nom.	audio	audiot
	gen.	audion
genitive		audion	audioiden audioitten
partitive		audiota	audioita
inessive		audiossa	audioissa
elative		audiosta	audioista
illative		audioon	audioihin
adessive		audiolla	audioilla
ablative		audiolta	audioilta
allative		audiolle	audioille
essive		audiona	audioina
translative		audioksi	audioiksi
abessive		audiotta	audioitta
instructive		—	audioin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of audio (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative audioni audioni accusative nom. audioni audioni gen. audioni genitive audioni audioideni audioitteni partitive audiotani audioitani inessive audiossani audioissani elative audiostani audioistani illative audiooni audioihini adessive audiollani audioillani ablative audioltani audioiltani allative audiolleni audioilleni essive audionani audioinani translative audiokseni audioikseni abessive audiottani audioittani instructive — — comitative — audioineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative audiosi audiosi accusative nom. audiosi audiosi gen. audiosi genitive audiosi audioidesi audioittesi partitive audiotasi audioitasi inessive audiossasi audioissasi elative audiostasi audioistasi illative audioosi audioihisi adessive audiollasi audioillasi ablative audioltasi audioiltasi allative audiollesi audioillesi essive audionasi audioinasi translative audioksesi audioiksesi abessive audiottasi audioittasi instructive — — comitative — audioinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative audiomme audiomme accusative nom. audiomme audiomme gen. audiomme genitive audiomme audioidemme audioittemme partitive audiotamme audioitamme inessive audiossamme audioissamme elative audiostamme audioistamme illative audioomme audioihimme adessive audiollamme audioillamme ablative audioltamme audioiltamme allative audiollemme audioillemme essive audionamme audioinamme translative audioksemme audioiksemme abessive audiottamme audioittamme instructive — — comitative — audioinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative audionne audionne accusative nom. audionne audionne gen. audionne genitive audionne audioidenne audioittenne partitive audiotanne audioitanne inessive audiossanne audioissanne elative audiostanne audioistanne illative audioonne audioihinne adessive audiollanne audioillanne ablative audioltanne audioiltanne allative audiollenne audioillenne essive audionanne audioinanne translative audioksenne audioiksenne abessive audiottanne audioittanne instructive — — comitative — audioinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative audionsa audionsa accusative nom. audionsa audionsa gen. audionsa genitive audionsa audioidensa audioittensa partitive audiotaan audiotansa audioitaan audioitansa inessive audiossaan audiossansa audioissaan audioissansa elative audiostaan audiostansa audioistaan audioistansa illative audioonsa audioihinsa adessive audiollaan audiollansa audioillaan audioillansa ablative audioltaan audioltansa audioiltaan audioiltansa allative audiolleen audiollensa audioilleen audioillensa essive audionaan audionansa audioinaan audioinansa translative audiokseen audioksensa audioikseen audioiksensa abessive audiottaan audiottansa audioittaan audioittansa instructive — — comitative — audioineen audioinensa

Synonyms

• ääni

Derived terms

• audiofiili

 

compounds

• audiolaite
• audiotekniikka

 

Further reading

• “audio”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.djo/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

audio (invariable)

1. audio
   • 2011, Christian Depover, Thierry Karsenti, Enseigner avec les technologies: Favoriser les apprentissages, développer des compétences, PUQ, →ISBN:

     La baladodiffusion est ainsi utilisée comme outil à potentiel cognitif, parce qu’elle permet, relativement facilement, de diffuser un contenu audio ou vidéo qui peut, par la suite, être écouté ou vu à tout moment par l’apprenant.

     Therefore, podcasting is used as a tool for cognitive potential, because it allows for the relatively easy distribution of audio or video content, which, as a result, can be listened to or watched at any moment by the learner.

Derived terms

• livre audio

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch audio, from Latin audiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈau̯dio]
• Hyphenation: au‧dio

Adjective

audio

1. audio: focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.

Noun

audio (uncountable)

1. audio: a sound, or a sound signal

Related terms

• audio mobil

 

Further reading

• “audio” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.djo/
• Rhymes: -awdjo
• Hyphenation: àu‧dio

Adjective

audio (invariable)

1. audio

Noun

audio m (invariable)

1. sound, volume, audio

Related terms

• audio-
• auditivo
• auditorio
• audizione
• udire

See also

• video

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *awizdjō, 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"), whence English aesthetic, and ἀΐω (aḯō, “to perceive, hear”), Hittite 𒌋𒀪𒄭 (u-uḫ-ḫi, “I see”), Proto-Germanic *awiz (“obvious”) and Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “openly, manifestly, evidently”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.di.oː/, [ˈäu̯d̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.di.o/, [ˈäːu̯d̪io]

  • Audio (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical):

    (file)

Verb

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

1. to hear, listen to

   Synonym: exaudio

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.219–220:

     Tālibus ōrantem dictīs ārāsque tenentem / audiit omnipotēns, [...].

     [King Iarbas,] praying with such words as he had spoken, and [as he was] grasping the holy altars [in supplication], the Almighty [Father] heard him, [...].

2. to attend, pay attention to

   Audīsne mē? ― Are you listening to me?

3. to accept, agree with, obey
4. to perceive or understand, learn (by hearing)

   Synonyms: agnōscō, cognōscō, inveniō, sentiō, cōnsciō, sapiō, sciō, nōscō, scīscō, intellegō, percipiō, discernō, inveniō, tongeō, cernō, exaudiō

   Antonyms: ignōrō, nesciō

Conjugation

   Conjugation of audiō (fourth conjugation)

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	audiō	audīs	audit	audīmus	audītis	audiunt
	imperfect	audiēbam	audiēbās	audiēbat	audiēbāmus	audiēbātis	audiēbant
	future	audiam	audiēs	audiet	audiēmus	audiētis	audient
	perfect	audīvī, audiī	audīvistī, audiistī	audīvit, audiit	audīvimus, audiimus	audīvistis, audiistis	audīvērunt, audīvēre, audiērunt, audiēre
	pluperfect	audīveram, audieram	audīverās, audierās	audīverat, audierat	audīverāmus, audierāmus	audīverātis, audierātis	audīverant, audierant
	future perfect	audīverō, audierō	audīveris, audieris	audīverit, audierit	audīverimus, audierimus	audīveritis, audieritis	audīverint, audierint
passive	present	audior	audīris, audīre	audītur	audīmur	audīminī	audiuntur
	imperfect	audiēbar	audiēbāris, audiēbāre	audiēbātur	audiēbāmur	audiēbāminī	audiēbantur
	future	audiar	audiēris, audiēre	audiētur	audiēmur	audiēminī	audientur
	perfect	audītus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	audītus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	audītus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	audiam	audiās	audiat	audiāmus	audiātis	audiant
imperfect	audīrem	audīrēs	audīret	audīrēmus	audīrētis	audīrent
perfect	audīverim, audierim	audīverīs, audierīs	audīverit, audierit	audīverīmus, audierīmus	audīverītis, audierītis	audīverint, audierint
pluperfect	audīvissem, audiissem	audīvissēs, audiissēs	audīvisset, audiisset	audīvissēmus, audiissēmus	audīvissētis, audiissētis	audīvissent, audiissent
passive	present	audiar	audiāris, audiāre	audiātur	audiāmur	audiāminī	audiantur
imperfect	audīrer	audīrēris, audīrēre	audīrētur	audīrēmur	audīrēminī	audīrentur
perfect	audītus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect	audītus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	audī	—	—	audīte	—
	future	—	audītō	audītō	—	audītōte	audiuntō
passive	present	—	audīre	—	—	audīminī	—
	future	—	audītor	audītor	—	—	audiuntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		audīre	audīvisse, audiisse	audītūrum esse	audīrī, audīrier1	audītum esse	audītum īrī
participles		audiēns	—	audītūrus	—	audītus	audiendus, audiundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		audiendī	audiendō	audiendum	audiendō	audītum	audītū

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

Derived terms

• abaudiō
• adaudiō
• audiendus
• audiēns
• audientia
• audītiō
• audītō
• audītor
• audītus
• exaudiō
• inaudiō
• obaudiō
• oboediō
• praeaudiō
• subaudiō

 

Related terms

• audītiuncula
• audītōriālis
• audītōrium
• audītōrius

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: avdu, avdzãri
  • Istro-Romanian: avzi
  • Megleno-Romanian: ud, uzări
  • Romanian: auzi, auzire
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: udire
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: uldî
  • Ladin: udir
  • Piedmontese: ovir
  • Romansch: udir
  • Venetan: aldir
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: aouir
  • Old French: oir, odir (archaic), uir, ouir
    • Middle French: ouyr, oyr
      • French: ouïr (dated)
    • Norman: ouir, ouï
    • → Middle English: oyes, oyas, oye, hoi (from the French imperative plural oyez)
      • English: oyez
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: oir, audir, ausir
    • Catalan: oir
  • Occitan: ausir
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese: oyr
    • Asturian: oyer
    • Leonese: oyire
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: ouir, oir, oyr, ouvyr (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: oir
    • Ladino: oyir
    • Spanish: oír
• Borrowings:
• → Basque: aditu
• → English: audio, ⇒ audile
• → Esperanto: aŭdi
• → French: audio
• → Ido: audar
• → Spanish: audio
• → Swedish: audiell

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^[3], 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[4], 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, →ISBN, page 61

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin audiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.djɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -awdjɔ
• Syllabification: au‧dio

Adjective

audio (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)

1. (postpositive) audio

Related terms

adjectives

• audialny
• audiencjonalny
• audiencyjny

 

noun

• audiencja

 

prefix

• audio-

 

Further reading

• audio in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• audio in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French audio.

Adjective

audio m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. audio

Declension

invariable		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	audio		audio		audio	audio
	definite	—		—		—	—
genitive- dative	indefinite	audio		audio		audio	audio
	definite	—		—		—	—

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English audio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaudjo/ [ˈau̯.ð̞jo]
• Rhymes: -audjo
• Syllabification: au‧dio

Noun

audio m (plural audios)

1. audio

Further reading

• “audio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Noun

audio c or n (uncountable)

1. audio