English
verbivocovisual
Verbivocovisual may come from Latin vocō ‘to call, summon, beckon’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvocō‘to call, summon, beckon’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2016verbivocovisual
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvocō‘to call, summon, beckon’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2016verbivocovisual
Earliest quotation: 2016, Nancy Perloff, Explodity: Sound: “In the view of the formalists, Italian futurism epitomized…”
The story
Coined by James Joyce in the experimental novel Finnegans Wake. Perhaps verbi- (from "verbiage"?) + Latin vocō ("to name") + visual, possibly influenced by Ezra Pound's Three Kinds of Poetry. Now frequently associated with Concrete poetry following its use by Augusto de Campos and other concrete poets in the mid-to-late 1950s.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- ‘to speak’
epic, wight, whit, epos, 29 more
through Proto-Italic *wōks ‘voice’
vocalist, voiceless, vocally, vocalize, 25 more
through Latin vōx ‘voice, speech’
voice, vocal, vox, invocation, vociferous, 25 more
through Latin vocō ‘to call, summon, beckon’
invite, invitation, advocate, vocational, provoke, invoke, vie, vouch, vocation, provocative, irrevocable, provocateur, revocable, 30 more
Today it means
adj Composed of semantic (or linguistic), visual, and sonic elements in synthesis.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin vocō / verbivocovisual