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audio-

prefix · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

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Meaning 1

Sound.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: morpheme

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2ewisder. Proto-Indo-European *dheh1-der. Proto-Italic *awizdiō Latin audi(ō) Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- English audio- From the root audi of Latin audiō (“to hear; to listen”) + -o-. Cognates include Proto-Germanic *awiz (“obvious”), Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “perceive, notice”) whence English aesthetic.

Across languages

Translations

17 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: audio- — related to sound
  • Danish: audio- — related to sound
  • Danish: lyd- — related to sound
  • Dutch: audio- — related to sound
  • Finnish: audio- — related to sound
  • French: audio- — related to sound
  • Galician: audio- — related to sound
  • German: audio- — related to sound
  • Italian: audio- — related to sound
  • Norwegian Bokmål: audio- — related to sound
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: audio- — related to sound
  • Occitan: audio- — related to sound
  • Polish: audio- — related to sound
  • Portuguese: audio- — related to sound
  • Russian: а́удио- (áudio-) — related to sound
  • Russian: звуко- (zvuko-) — related to sound
  • Spanish: audio- — related to sound