télégraphe
French edit
Etymology edit
From télé- + -graphe, coined by André François Miot de Mélito in 1792 as a replacement for Claude Chappe's tachygraphe (literally “fast writer”), a communication system based on semaphores.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
télégraphe m (plural télégraphes)
Further reading edit
- “télégraphe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.