-phone

See also: phone, phoné, and 'phone

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

Audio (US): (file)

Suffix

-phone

A type of sound.
allophone; homophone
A device that makes a sound.
aerophone; saxophone
Forming adjectives: speaking a certain language.
Anglophone; Francophone; Germanophone
Forming nouns: a speaker of a certain language.
Anglophone; Francophone; Germanophone

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -phone

electrocardiophone

Netherlandophone

type of sound

other derived terms

Related terms

Translations

type of sound

Danish: -fon c
Dutch: -foon (nl)
French: -phone (fr)
Hungarian: -fón
Italian: -fono (it) m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: -fon

Nynorsk: -fon
Polish: -fon m
Portuguese: -fone (pt) m

device that makes a sound

Danish: -fon c
Dutch: -foon (nl)
French: -phone (fr)
Hungarian: -fon
Norwegian:
Bokmål: -fon

Nynorsk: -fon
Polish: -fon m
Portuguese: -fone (pt) m

speaker of a certain language

Dutch: -foon (nl)
French: -phone (fr)
Hungarian: -fón, -ul/-ül beszélő, ajkú (hu)
Japanese: 話者 (ja) (washa)
Portuguese: -fono (pt) m

Anagrams

nepho-, pheno-, pheon

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɔn/
Audio: (file)

Suffix

-phone m or f

forming adjectives: -phone (speaking a specific language)
forming nouns: -phone (speaker of a specific language)

Suffix

-phone m

forming nouns: -phone (something that makes a sound e.g. saxophone)

Derived terms

speaker of a specific language

Further reading

“-phone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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