speaker
English
Etymology
From Middle English speker, spekere, an alteration (with change of suffix) of Old English speca, spreca (“speaker”), from Proto-Germanic *sprekô (“speaker”), equivalent to speak + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Spreeker (“speaker”), West Frisian sprekker (“speaker”), Dutch spreker (“speaker”), German Low German Spreker (“speaker”), German Sprecher (“speaker”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -iːkə(ɹ)
Noun
speaker (plural speakers)
- One who speaks.
- 1989, R. Norman Whybray, Ecclesiastes, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 15:
- This title is derived from the first verse of the book (1.1), which is a heading or colophon informing the reader who this Qoheleth was: he was the author of the book, or at least the speaker of the words which are contained in it ...
- There were three different speakers, but I couldn't make out their accents.
- Loudspeaker.
- She lost her hearing after standing too close to the speaker at the festival.
- Speakerphone.
- (politics) The chair or presiding officer of certain legislative bodies, such as the U.K. House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives.
- One who makes a speech to an audience.
- The company hired a motivational speaker to boost morale.
- (US) A book containing passages of text for use in speeches.
- (especially in linguistics) The producer of a given utterance, whether speech or text.
- 2002, Merlin Donald, A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 242:
- The speaker spelled out the words to be communicated, letter by letter, while the reader's hand read the speaker's message. In its original form the hand alphabet assumed that both speaker and reader could already speak and spell the words ...
- (poetry) The literary character uttering the lyrics of a poem or song, as opposed to the author writing the words of that character.
- Popular culture often incorrectly attributes quotes from the speakers of poems or songs to the authors thereof, as when "I took the one less traveled by" is attributed to Robert Frost rather than to the speaker in Frost's "The Road Not Taken".
- (music) A key on a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family (cf octave key on other instruments) which induces the instrument to overblow.
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Brunei Malay
Etymology
Borrowed from English speaker.
Pronunciation
Noun
speaker
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English speaker.
Pronunciation
Noun
speaker m (plural speakers, feminine speakerine)
Further reading
- “speaker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English speaker.
Pronunciation
Noun
speaker m (invariable)
- announcer, commentator (radio, TV)
- speaker (parliamentary)
References
- ^ speaker in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- ^ speaker in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from English speaker.
Noun
speaker m (definite singular speakeren, indefinite plural speakere, definite plural speakerne)
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English speaker.
Noun
speaker m (plural speakeri)
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) speaker | speakerul | (niște) speakeri | speakerii |
genitive/dative | (unui) speaker | speakerului | (unor) speakeri | speakerilor |
vocative | speakerule | speakerilor |
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
speaker m or f (plural speakers or #)
- speaker (in parliament)
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:English/iːkə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/iːkə(ɹ)/2 syllables
- English lemmas
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- English terms with quotations
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- Brunei Malay terms borrowed from English
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- Brunei Malay terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Italian terms borrowed from English
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- Rhymes:Italian/iker
- Rhymes:Italian/iker/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms borrowed from English
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ikeɾ
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- Spanish lemmas
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