different between audio vs acoustic

For audio in Wiktionary, see Wiktionary:Audio.

English

Etymology

Clipping of audio-.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.di.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??.di.o?/
• (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) IPA^(key): /??.di.o?/

Adjective

audio (comparative more audio, superlative most audio)

1. Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.

Translations

Noun

audio (usually uncountable, plural audios)

1. A sound, or a sound signal

Derived terms

• audio book
• audio tape

Related terms

Translations

See also

• video

References

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

Anagrams

• Douai

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin audi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?.di.o?/
• Hyphenation: au?dio

Noun

audio c (plural audio's)

1. audio.

   Synonym: geluid

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?dio/, [??u?dio?]
• Rhymes: -?udio
• Syllabification: au?di?o

Noun

audio

1. (uncommon outside compounds) audio

Declension

Synonyms

• ääni

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.djo/

Adjective

audio

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

Derived terms

• livre audio

Italian

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 *awizdj?, a compound of Proto-Indo-European *h?ewis (“clearly, manifestly”) (from the root *h?ew- (“to see, perceive”)) and *d?h?-ye/o- (“to render”).

Cognates include Ancient Greek ?????????? (aisthánomai, “to perceive”) (also originally "to render manifest") and ??? (a??, “to perceive, hear”), Hittite ???????????? (u-u?-?i, “I see”) and Sanskrit ????? (?vís, “openly, manifestly, evidently”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?au?.di.o?/, [?äu?d?io?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?au?.di.o/, [???u?d?i?]

Verb

audi? (present infinitive aud?re, perfect active aud?v? or audi?, supine aud?tum); fourth conjugation

1. I hear, listen to
2. I attend, pay attention to

3. I accept, agree with, obey

Conjugation

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

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

See also

• auscult?

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?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• audio in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[3], 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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?audjo/, [?au?.ð?jo]

Noun

audio m (plural audios)

1. audio

Further reading

• “audio” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Noun

audio ? (uncountable)

1. audio

English

Alternative forms

• acoustick (obsolete)
• acoustical

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin acousticus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (akoustikós, “of or for hearing”), from ????? (akoú?, “to hear”) +? -???? (-ikós, adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ku?.st?k/
• Rhymes: -u?st?k

Adjective

acoustic (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds.

   Synonym: auditory

   1. (architecture) (of building materials) Used for soundproofing or modifying sound.
   2. (of a device or system) Utilizing sound energy in its operation.
   3. (weaponry) (of an explosive mine or other weapon) Able to be set off by sound waves.
2. (music) Naturally producing or produced by an instrument without electrical amplification.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

acoustic (plural acoustics)

1. (usually in the plural) The properties or qualities of a room or building that determine how sound is transmitted in it.
2. (medicine) A medicine or other agent to assist hearing.
3. Clipping of acoustic guitar.

Translations

References

• “acoustic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “acoustic”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).