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RootLatin
aud
hearing, listening
Latin audire means hear: an audience listens, an audition tests what is heard, and audible sounds can be heard.
Words built from it
- audio — relating to sound that can be heard
aud (hear) + -io (relating to) - audible — able to be heard
aud (hear) + -ible (able to be) - audience — a group of people listening or watching
aud (hear) + -ience (group who) - audition — a trial performance to be heard and judged
aud (hear) + -ition (act of) - auditory — relating to the sense of hearing
aud (hear) + -ory (relating to) - inaudible — unable to be heard
in- (not) + aud (hear) + -ible (able to be)
Looks like it, but is not
- audacious — from Latin audax/audacia 'bold, daring', from audere 'to dare'; a different root from audire 'to hear'
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