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vox humana en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vōx hūmāna.

Meanings

1. An organ stop having some resemblance to the human voice.
   • While on maneuvers in South Carolina, Billy played hymns he knew from childhood, played them on a little black organ which was waterproof. It had thirty-nine keys and two stops — vox humana and vox celeste.^([sic]) 1969, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., chapter 2 (pages 19–42), in Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death, Vintage edition (1991 paperback), London: Vintage Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 25:
   • Let me take this other glove off / As the vox humana swells, / And the beauteous fields of Eden / Bask beneath the Abbey bells. 1940, John Betjeman, “In Westminster Abbey”, in Old Lights for New Chancels:

Forms

Translations (2)

pl vox humana (organ stop resembling the human voice) · bg vox humana (organ stop resembling the human voice)