vocableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French vocable or Latin vocābulum, from Latin vocō (“I call”).

発音

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

名詞

vocable (複数形 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, Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Native American Music"

     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.

形容詞

vocable (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Able to be uttered.

   a vocable marker

同意語

• utterable, voiceable

関連する語

• vocabulary
• vocability