audile

English

Etymology

Irregular formation from Latin audire + -ilis. By surface analysis, audio +‎ -ile.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔːdaɪl/

Noun

audile (plural audiles)

  1. A person whose mental imagery consists of sounds.

Translations

Adjective

audile (comparative more audile, superlative most audile)

  1. Pertaining to hearing.
    • 1973: I listened carefully to my audile memory, recalling the exact noise of the shot. — Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001, p. 93)
    • 1976 December 25, Rudy Kikel, quoting Stephanie Byrd, “A Theory of Erotic Devices or The Lady and the Beast”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 18:
      At Indiana University, we were encouraged to read Latin, Greek, German, you know all those things, aloud. That's one of the things I liked about studying languages, that I could actually read them aloud, hear them, experience them on an audile level.

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