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by coldtea 762 days ago
In ancient and koinē Greek it meant both voice and sound (including the sound of instruments, which carries in modern instrument names like "saxophone" and so on).

They would say "ὀργάνων φωναί", "φωνὴ βροντῆς", "φωνὴ ὑδάτων" and so on for example.