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Euphonious

//juːˈfəʊ.nɪ.əs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of sounds, especially speech: demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding.

    "Before I ſet forward on my travels, I choſe to change my name from Collier to Coglioni or Collioni, as more euphonious; […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having a pleasant sound wordnet
  2. 2
    (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident wordnet

Etymology

From euphonical + -ous (suffix forming adjectives denoting possession or presence of a quality, commonly in abundance). Euphonical is derived from euphonic + -al (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’); with euphonic from euphony + -ic (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’), and euphony borrowed from French euphonie, from Ancient Greek εὐφωνία (euphōnía), from εὐ- (eu-, prefix meaning ‘good, well’) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound; (human) voice; discourse, speech”) (from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, speak”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).

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