VOICE Copy link • VOICEvox (general term, the faculty of producing audible and articulate sounds: then, also, the sound itself that is produced, either of living beings or personified objects; e.g., the voice of nature, naturae vox): cantus (the song of birds): sonus (the tone, sound of a voice or of a musical instrument): vocis sonus (the sound of the voice): sonitus (a continuing sound, as that of the tuba, tubae; of thunder, tonitruum). A clear voice, vox clara (a loud, discernible voice; opposed to a dull, indistinct voice, vox obtusa): vox canora (a clear, harmonious voice; opposed to a dull, low voice, vox fusca). A clear voice, vox laevis (opposed to a rough voice, vox aspera): a high or acute voice, vox acuta (opposed to a deep voice, vox gravis): a flexible voice, vox flexibilis (opposed to a harsh voice, vox dura): a full voice, vox plena (opposed to a thin, faint voice, vox exilis): with a loud voice, (e.g., to call), clara voce; magna voce: firmness, power, etc., of voice, vocis magnitudo, firmitudo: clearness of voice, vocis splendor: to know anybody by his voice, aliquem voce noscitare: aliquem ex voce cognoscere: to imitate the human voice, imitari humanae vocis sonum: to raise one’s voice, attollere vocem: to lower one’s voice, submittere vocem: to exert one’s voice beyond measure, vocem ultra vires urgere. Figuratively. To listen to anybody’s voice, audire aliquem (to listen to, follow anybody): aliquem monentem audire (to listen to anybody’s exhortation). To obey the voice, or call of nature, naturam ducem sequi: congruenter naturae convenienterque vivere: to listen to the voice, of one’s conscience, a recta conscientia non discedere. Vote; suffrage, sententia (general term; of a senator in the Senate, of a judge in the court, of the people in the comitia, etc.): suffragium (the vote of a Roman citizen in the comitia; then also, the voting tablet): punctum (the vote which a candidate received in the comitia; because the collectors of the votes [custodes] made a dot or point opposite the name of the person in whose favor the tablet was sent in). By metonymy, the general voice, omnium consensus, consensus publicus: there is only one voice, concerning anything, omnes uno ore in aliqua re consentiunt: to have the first voice, principatum sententiae tenere.