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"audio, sound (recorded)" in seven languages

Meaningaudio, sound (recorded)

Spanish

audio

/ˈaudjo/

masc.learned

French

audio

/odjo/

masc.learned

Mostly an adjective or in compounds: un message audio, un fichier audio.

Italian

audio

/ˈaudjo/

masc.learned

Portuguese

áudio

/ˈawdʒiu/

masc.learned

In Brazil um áudio is also a voice message.

Romanian

sunet

/ˈsunet/

neut.other source · Latin SONITUM 'sound'

Audio is mostly an invariable adjective in Romanian: fișier audio.

Catalan

àudio

/ˈawdiu/

masc.learned

English

audio

/ˈɑdioʊ/

from Latin/French · Latin audiō 'I hear' (modern coinage)

English → Italianaudio, sound (recorded)audioCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

AUDĪRE‘to hear’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

A 20th-century word made from Latin 'I hear', identical in all four. The inherited heirs of AUDĪRE wore down to Spanish oír, French ouïr and Italian udire.

English relatives: audience, audition, auditorium, audible

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In a sentence

  • esEl audio no funciona.
  • frL'audio ne marche pas.
  • itL'audio non funziona.
  • ptO áudio não está funcionando.
  • roNu merge sunetul.
  • caL'àudio no funciona.
  • enThe audio isn't working.

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