vocalis

Borrowed from Latin vōcālis (“sounding, vocal”), clipping of mūsculus vōcālis (“vocal muscle”). Doublet of vocal and vowel.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /voʊˈkeɪ.lɪs/
• Rhymes: -eɪlɪs

vocalis (plural vocales)

1. (anatomy) A triangular band of muscle that is the medial part of the thyroarytenoid muscle, originates in the lamina of the thyroid cartilage, and inserts into the vocal process of the arytenoid cartilage; it lies parallel with the vocal ligament to which it is adherent and modulates the tension of the true vocal cords.

• “vocalis”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [woːˈkaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [voˈkaː.lis]

From vōx (“a voice, sound, tone”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjective-forming derivational suffix).

vōcālis (neuter vōcāle, adverb vōcāliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (literally) uttering a voice, having a voice; speaking, sounding, sonorous, speaking, crying, singing, melodious; vocal
2. (transferred sense):
   1. (causative, rare, poetic) making vocal, causing or inspiring speech or song
   2. prophesying

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• sēmivocālis
• vōcālitās (noun)
• vōcāliter (adverb)
• vōcālēs

Noun use of the adjective vōcālis, in elliptical use for littera vōcālis or lītera vōcālis (literally “sounding letter”), a calque of Ancient Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen).

vōcālis f (genitive vōcālis); third declension

1. (grammar) vowel

   Synonyms: littera vōcālis, lītera vōcālis

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

• cōnsonāns

• “vocalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vocalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vocalis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• vocalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Latin vōcālis.

vocalis f

1. vowel
   • 13th century. In: Seifried Helbling. Herausgegeben und erklärt von Joseph Seemüller, Halle a. S., 1886, p. 237f.:

     Quinque sunt vocales
     A E I O U.
     Diu êrst vocalis ist daz â.
     [...]
     Diu dritt vocalis ist daz î.
     [...]
     Diu fünft vocalis ist daz û.
     [...]

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   • 13th century. In: Das deutsche Kirchenlied von der ältesten Zeit bis zu Anfang des XVII. Jahrhunderts. Von Philipp Wackernagel. Zweiter Band, Leipzig, 1867, p. 209:

     Quinque sunt vocales, | A E I O U. | Diu erst vocalis ist daz a. | [...] | Diu dritt vocalis ist daz i. | [...] | Diu vünft vocalis ist daz u. | [...]

• vocales