VOCABLEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈvəʊkəbl̩/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈvoʊkəbl̩/

語源 1

From 中期英語 vocable, from Middle French vocable and its etymon, Latin vocābulum, from vocō (“to call”).

名詞

vocable (plural vocables)

1. (linguistics) A word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning.
   • 1974, Anthony Burgess, The Clockwork Testament:

     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.

   • 1925, John Buchan, The House of the Four Winds:

     At first the man puzzled; then he smiled. He pronounced a string of uncouth vocables.

2. (music) A syllable or sound without specific meaning, used together with or in place of actual words in a song.
   • a. 2010, Victoria Lindsay Levine, Native American Music, Encyclopaedia Britannica:

     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.

関連する語

• vocabular
• vocabulary

語源 2

From Latin vocō +‎ -able.

形容詞

vocable (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Able to be uttered.

   a vocable marker

同意語

• utterable, voiceable

派生語

• vocability

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