vox humana

From Latin vōx hūmāna.

vox humana (plural vox humanas)

1. An organ stop having some resemblance to the human voice.
   • 1940, John Betjeman, “In Westminster Abbey”, in Old Lights for New Chancels:

     Let me take this other glove off / As the vox humana swells, / And the beauteous fields of Eden / Bask beneath the Abbey bells.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯oːks huːˈmaː.na/, [u̯oːks̠ huːˈmäːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /voks uˈma.na/, [vɔks uˈmäːnä]

vōx hūmāna f (genitive vōcis hūmānae); third declension

1. the human voice
2. what a person would say

Third-declension noun with a first-declension adjective.