voix

la voix (FR N-F) voice, in humans the sound or sounds produced when air passes over the vocal chords in the larynx, causing the chords to vibrate; sound made by anything. First appears in French CA 1080 spelled voiz, from Latin vox. By the 13th century x replaces the z, and the word has the additional meaning of a suffrage or vote. (Apollinaire, Banville, Bourget, Bussine, Carême, Debussy, Eluard, Fargue, Gautier, Gravollet, Haraucourt, Hugo, Leconte de Lisle, Moréas, Pomey, Ravel, Samain…