electroacoustic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.93 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to electroacoustics.
adj
acoustic sounds that are manipulated and processed by electronic devices, e.g. altering vocals with a vocoder
Etymology
Etymology tree French électro-bor. Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor. Latin ēlectrum Latin electro-bor. English electro- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti Proto-Hellenic *akóuhō Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κουστῐκός (ăkoustĭkós)bor. Medieval Latin acousticusbor. English acoustic English electroacoustic From electro- + acoustic.
Inflected Forms
more electroacoustic (comparative)
most electroacoustic (superlative)