K-POP has become a global music genre, and it relies on auditions to find the best talent.
The English word ‘audition’ first appeared in English in the 1590s, meaning ‘power of hearing,’ and expanded to mean ‘the act of hearing, a listening’ in the 1650s.
It wasn't until 1881 that audition began to be used to mean ‘a contest’ on stage, ‘a trial for a performer’, and then, in 1938, as a verb meaning ‘to enter a contest, try out for a performance part; to test or try out in an audition’.
The direct root of the 'audition' is the French word 'audicion', which means ‘the act of listening in court’. The French word 'audicion' comes from the Latin word 'auditionem', which means ‘a hearing, listening to’.
The Latin word 'auditionem' comes from the Latin verb 'audire', meaning ‘to hear,’ which is the root of the English words for ‘hearing’ or ‘sound,’ including ‘audible,’ ‘audience,’ and the prefix audio-.
The PIE root of ‘audire’ is ‘*au-’, meaning ‘to perceive’.
The English word obey is not part of the audio- family, but it has the same PIE root ‘*au-’. It makes sense that obey, which means ‘to obey’, has the same root as ‘audition’, a word that means ‘to listen’.
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ENGLISH ROOT WORD: aud-, audi-, audio- "hear", "sound" from Latin auditus, audire
【aud-, audi-, audio-】 are a [English Root word(stem)] from the Latin word(s) "auditus," and "audire."It carries the basic meaning of "hear," "sound," "hearing," and "listening."[English words in the top 5000 most frequently used containing the root "au
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