vocable

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The initial i in the particle -ile often affects the last or penultimate syllable of the verbal root, thereby causing one of the very rare changes which take place in this vocable.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

But they who make the noun one and the vocable an other, reckon nine.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Sometimes he merely alters a letter or two; sometimes he twists off the head or the tail of the unfortunate vocable altogether.

From Spenser by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

But the Maya vocable Thallac, signifies a thing without steadiness, like the sea.

From Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa by Le Plongeon, Augustus

And, though for Oxford men the savour of the name itself has long evaporated through its local connexion, many things show that for the Founder himself it was no empty vocable.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir