## Meanings
1. Sound, especially when it is recorded or broadcast.
2. Relating to sound or its recording and broadcasting.
3. A piece of recorded sound.

## Examples
- The video was great, but the audio was too quiet.
- Plug the audio cable into the back of the speaker.
- She sent me an audio of the lecture.

## Derived Forms
- audiation
- audio-book
- audio-description
- audio-typist
- audioboard
- audiocentric
- audiocentrism
- audioconference
- audiotape
- audiotrack
- audiovisual
- audism

## Related Forms
- video

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *h₂ew-

## Etymology
Clipping of audio-. Cognates include Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “perceive, notice”) whence English aesthetic.

## AI Etymology
Audio is a clipping of audio-. Cognates include Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “perceive, notice”) whence English aesthetic. The historical line also includes Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-.

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