knapptelefon

Swedish

1. Knapptelefon (1969)

2. Knapptelefon (2007)

Etymology

knapp +‎ telefon, at least since 1973, probably a decade older; virtually obsolete around 2000, when dial telephones were no longer used; then revived again after the introduction in 2007 of the smartphone

Noun

knapptelefon c

1. a push-button telephone, keypad telephone, a fixed-line telephone that does not have a rotary dial
2. a featurephone, a mobile telephone (after the 2007 introduction of the iPhone) that is not a smartphone

Declension

Declension of knapptelefon
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	knapptelefon	knapptelefonen	knapptelefoner	knapptelefonerna
Genitive	knapptelefons	knapptelefonens	knapptelefoners	knapptelefonernas

Synonyms

• knappsatstelefon
• knappvalstelefon

Antonyms

• fingerskivstelefon
• pekmobil
• smarttelefon

References

• knapptelefon in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• knapptelefon in Eriterm : femspråkig ordlista för telekommunikation (1992)
• knapptelefon in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (10th ed., 1st printing, 1973)
• knappsatstelefon, knapptelefon in Ingvar E. Gullberg, Svensk-engelsk fackordbok för näringsliv, förvaltning, undervisning och forskning (1977)