## Meanings
1. The sound a person makes when speaking or singing.
2. The ability to speak or sing.
3. The right or chance to express an opinion.
4. To express something in words.

## Examples
- Their voices echoed through the building.
- I lost my voice after the concert.
- Workers want a voice in how the company is run.
- I've already voiced my concerns to the manager.

## Related Forms
- vocable
- vocabulary
- vocal
- vocalization
- vocalize
- vocation

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: voice
- Root: voiz, voys, voice
- Root: vois, voiz
- Root: vōcem
- Root: *wṓkʷs

## Etymology
From Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx (“voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs, root noun from *wekʷ- (“to utter, speak”). Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vāc), Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps), Persian آواز (âvâz). Displaced native Middle English steven (“voice”) (from Old English stefn (see steven)), Old English hlēoþor, Old English woþ, and Old English reord. Compare advocate, advowson, avouch, convoke, vocal, vouch, vowel. Doublet of vox.

## AI Etymology
Voice is from Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx (“voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs, root noun from *wekʷ- (“to utter, speak”). Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vāc), Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps), Persian آواز (âvâz). Displaced native Middle English steven (“voice”) (from Old English stefn (see steven)), Old English hlēoþor, Old English woþ, and Old English reord. Compare advocate, advowson, avouch, convoke, vocal, vouch, vowel. Doublet of vox. In present-day use, it can mean the sound a person makes when speaking or singing, or the ability to speak or sing.

## Topics
- Communication

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