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audio-

audio- prefix: sound.

Prefix

audio-

  1. Sound.

Origin of 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.

Words formed from audio-

Questions about audio-

What does audio- mean?
Audio- means sound.
What part of speech is audio-?
Audio- is a prefix.

Words near audio- in the dictionary

  1. audio tuning
  2. audio typing
  3. audio typist
  4. audio typists
  5. audio vérité
  6. audio-
  7. audio-book
  8. audio-books
  9. audio-description
  10. audio-descriptions
  11. audio-record

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