-phone
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice, speech, language”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoh₂neh₂, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”); related to fame and fable.
Some terms ending in phone, such as textphone, are actually compounds made with phone.
SuffixEdit
-phone
Derived termsEdit
speaker of a specific language
- Afrophone
- Anglophone
- Arabophone
- aragonophone
- arameophone
- armenophone
- basquephone
- Batavophone, Dutchophone, Netherlandophone
- Berberophone
- Bulgarophone
- Catalanophone
- celtophone
- Cymrophone
- Danophone
- Esperantophone
- etruscophone
- Europhone
- fennophone, Finnophone
- Francophone, Gallophone
- Gaelophone, Hibernophone
- Germanophone, Teutophone
- Graecophone, Grecophone, hellenophone
- Hebraeophone
- Hindophone, Indophone
- Hispanophone
- Hungarophone
- Iranophone, Persophone
- Italophone
- Japanophone
- Kurdophone
- Latinophone
- lusophone
- Norvegophone
- Polonophone
- Romanophone
- Russophone
- Rwandophone
- Sinophone
- Slavophone
- Suahelophone
- Suecophone, Suedophone, Swedophone
- Turkophone
- Ukrainophone
- vascophone
a sound-transmitting device
other derived terms
TranslationsEdit
type of sound
device that makes a sound
speaker of a certain language
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
SuffixEdit
-phone
- speaker of a specific language
- something that makes a sound e.g. saxophone
Derived termsEdit
speaker of a specific language
Further readingEdit
- “-phone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.