voice
/vɔɪs/·보이스·noun
sound produced by the vocal cords; the right to express opinion
LatinCEFR A2
Root
Latin 'vox/vocis' (voice)
Latin vox/vocis (voice) → Old French voiz → Middle English voice (13th c.). Replaced the native Old English stefn after the Norman Conquest.
In a word
This word is a place Latin took over from Germanic. Old English had its own Germanic word, stefn (kin to German Stimme). After 1066 the Norman Conquest pushed Latin vox, via French, into that slot. From the same Latin root come — voice (the voice), vocal (relating to the voice), vocation (a calling), invoke (to call up), advocate (one who is called to a side). A citizen's "voice" in modern democracy is the fossil record of a moment when Norman power overwrote one Germanic word inside English with a Latin one.
Examples
Her voice was soft.
Every citizen deserves a voice.
He lost his voice from a cold.
Related
vocalvocalizevocationinvokeadvocate