Where does “sonification” come from?

sonification (English) comes from English sonify, from English Sonic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

sonification (English): The process of sonifying

Definitions

  1. The process of sonifying

Ancestry of “sonification”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsonifyTo map data to sound in order to allow listeners...
2EnglishSonicOf or relating to sound
3English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
4EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
5Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
6Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
7Spanishimagenimage
8Italianimmagineimage; imago
9Latinimāginem
10Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
11Latinīn-un-, non-, not
12Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én
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