vox humana

English

Etymology

From Latin vōx hūmāna.

Noun

vox humana (plural vox humanas)

1. An organ stop having some resemblance to the human voice.
   • 1940, John Betjeman, “In Westminster Abbey”, in Old Lights for New Chancels:

     Let me take this other glove off / As the vox humana swells, / And the beauteous fields of Eden / Bask beneath the Abbey bells.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯oːks huːˈmaː.na/, [u̯oːks̠ huːˈmäːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /voks uˈma.na/, [vɔks uˈmäːnä]

Noun

vōx hūmāna f (genitive vōcis hūmānae); third declension

1. the human voice
2. what a person would say

Declension

Third-declension noun with a first-declension adjective.

	singular	plural
nominative	vōx hūmāna	vōcēs hūmānae
genitive	vōcis hūmānae	vōcum hūmānārum
dative	vōcī hūmānae	vōcibus hūmānīs
accusative	vōcem hūmānam	vōcēs hūmānās
ablative	vōce hūmānā	vōcibus hūmānīs
vocative	vōx hūmāna	vōcēs hūmānae