Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To proclaim with a cry of oyez.
intj
Hear ye. Attend. (Called by public criers or in court usually three times to secure silence or attentiveness).
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA cry of oyez.
From Middle English oyes, from Old French oyez, the imperative plural of oir (“to hear; to listen”), from Latin audīre. Commonly folk-etymologized as (and pronounced homophonously to) O + yes in the early modern period.
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