audio-
prefixEtymology 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.
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Morpheme Sound.
- Derived terms
- audio