-phone - Wiktionary

See also: phone, phoné, and 'phone

English

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Etymology

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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

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• Audio (US):

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Suffix

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-phone

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

Derived terms

[edit] English terms suffixed with -phone acrophone actinophone aerophone Afrophone Akkadophone allophone ammoniaphone Anglophone anglophone aquaphone Arabophone Arameophone archeophone autophone Autophone Banglaphone Bascophone Batavophone Belarusophone Berberophone bigophone biophotophone Blattnerphone Bulgarophone Cambrophone Cantophone cardiophone Catalanophone corrugaphone crystallophone Cymrophone Czechophone Danophone Dutchophone electrocardiophone electrophone encephalophone Esperantophone Europhone Finnophone flutophone Francophone Gaelophone Gallophone geophone Germanophone glassophone gramophone Grecophone harmoniphone Hellenophone heterophone hispanophone Hispanophone homoiophone homophone hosaphone hydrophone -phonia -phonic ideophone idiophone inductophone Iranophone Italophone Japanophone kaleidophone keraunophone kinetophone Kurdophone Kyrgyzophone lagerphone laryngophone Latinophone lithophone luminaphone Lusophone magnetophone Malayophone marimbaphone Marxophone megaphone mellophone melophone membranophone metallophone microphone misophone monophone Netherlandophone octophone optophone osteophone Persophone photographone photophone pistonphone Polonophone pyrophone radiophone Romanophone Russophone Rwandophone saxophone Sinophone sinophone Slavophone Slovakophone Somalophone sonorophone sousaphone spectrophone sphygmophone stereophone stylophone sudrophone Sumerophone Swedophone techniphone Teutonophone Teutophone thermophone topophone tracheophone Turkophone typophone Ukrainophone verrophone vibraphone vibrophone violinophone waterphone xenophone xylophone -phony type of sound

• allophone
• homophone
• monophone
• xenophone

speaker of a specific language

• Afrophone
• Anglophone
• Arabophone
• aragonophone
• arameophone
• armenophone
• Asiophone
• basquephone
• Batavophone, Dutchophone, Netherlandophone
• Belarusophone
• 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
• Kyrgyzophone
• Latinophone
• lusophone
• Norvegophone
• Polonophone
• Romanophone
• Russophone
• Rwandophone
• Sinophone
• Slavophone
• Suahelophone
• Suecophone, Suedophone, Swedophone
• Turkophone
• Ukrainophone
• vascophone

a sound-transmitting device

• aerophone
• dictaphone
• earphone
• geophone
• gramophone
• headphone
• heckelphone
• hydrophone
• interphone
• megaphone
• mellophone
• metallophone
• microphone
• radiophone
• radiotelephone
• saxophone
• sousaphone
• speakerphone
• stylophone
• telephone
• vibraphone
• videophone
• xylophone

other derived terms

• heterophone
• -phonic
• -phony
• polyphone

Related terms

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• phone
• phono-

Translations

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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

forming adjectives: speaking a certain language

French: -phone (fr) German: -sprachig (de)

forming nouns: 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

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• nepho-, pheno-, pheon

French

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /fɔn/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Suffix

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-phone m or f

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

Suffix

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-phone m

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

Derived terms

[edit] French terms suffixed with -phone aérophone afrophone akkadophone albanophone amazighophone anglophone aphone arabophone araméophone bambaraphone bascophone berbérophone biélorussophone brittophone catalanophone dictaphone électrophone finnophone francophone gallophone germanophone hébréophone hellénophone hindiphone hispanophone hygiaphone italophone japanophone kirghizophone kurdophone lettophone lusophone magnétophone marathiphone mégaphone microphone néerlandophone occitanophone ostéophone ourdouphone polonophone russophone saxophone suédophone sumérophone tchécophone téléphone théâtrophone turcophone ukrainophone vibraphone vidéophone visiophone wallophone xylophone yiddishophone zarmaphone speaker of a specific language

• allophone
• anglophone
• arabophone
• francophone
• germanophone
• hispanophone
• lusophone
• néerlandophone
• nipponophone
• russophone
• sinophone
• suédophone

Further reading

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