-phone
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”), Proto-Indo-European *bʰoh₂neh₂, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”), related to fame.
Suffix
-phone
- A type of sound.
- A device that makes a sound.
- A device related to the telephone.
- A speaker of a certain language.
Derived terms
- motodynamophone
speaker of a specific language
- anglophone
- Arabophone
- armenophone
- batavophone
- celtophone
- Danophone
- etruscophone
- fennophone
- francophone
- gallophone
- germanophone
- Graecophone, Grecophone
- Hebraeophone
- Hibernophone
- Hindophone, Indophone
- Hungarophone
- Hispanophone
- Japonophone
- italophone
- Latinophone
- lusophone
- Norvegophone
- Persophone
- Polonophone
- Romanophone
- Russophone
- sinophone
- Slavophone
- Suahelophone
- Suecophone, Suedophone
- Teutophone
- Turkophone
- vascophone
a sound-transmitting device
Translations
type of sound
device that makes a sound
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”)
Suffix
-phone
- speaker of a specific language
- something that makes a sound e.g. saxophone
Derived terms
speaker of a specific language
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