-phonous

English Etymology en grc:-φωνος -ous adap.comb. form 7298832714 en -phone -ous. Suffix Of the sound, voice, or speech sound of the specified type. en -phonic en 1832 The Westminster Review The Harmonicon part I (Containing Essays, Criticisms, Biography, Foreign Reports, and Miscellaneous Correspondence. 1) London Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman,Paternoster-Row. 241 https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zOcqAAAAYAAJ/page/241/mode/1up 2 702721015 What the writer says on the subject of accent, as it may be marked on that uniphonous instrument the drum, illustrates what had been written on the subject a century ago, by Malcolm; en 1857 Robert Gray Mayne An Expository Lexicon of the Terms, Ancient and Modern, in Medical and General Science;Including a Complete Medico-legal Vocabulary, and Presenting the Correct Pronunciation, Derivation, Definition, and Application of the Names, Analogues, Synonymes, and Phrases (in English, Latin, Greek, French, and German) Connected with Medicine, and Employed in the Natural Sciences. London John Churchill,New Burlington Street. 1860 698 https://archive.org/details/b21535656/page/698/mode/1up 1 10938718 la Micrŏphōnus, a, um. (grc Μικρός, small; grc φωνή, the voice.) Med., Physiol. Having a slender weak voice: micropho′nous. en 1860 Johann Heinrich Kurtz John Henry Augustus Bomberger Administration of Public Worship History of the Christian Church to the Reformation.From the German of Professor Kurtz. With Emendations and Additions, by the Rev. Alfred Edersheim, Ph. D., Author of “History of the Jewish Nation.” Edinburgh Thomas & Thomas Clark,38, George Street. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; Dublin: John Robertson. 232 https://archive.org/details/historychristia00kurtgoog/page/232/mode/1up 3138383 Notwithstanding the increasing attempts of the clergy to exclude the people from participating in the services of the Church, the laity continued for a long time the practice of hypophonous chants, which consisted of responses to the intonation, the reading, and the prayere of the clergy, and of the so-called Acroteleutia, or responses to the psalms sung by the clergy. Derived terms en References