-phone
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfəʊ̯n/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈfoʊ̯n/, /ˈfɔʊ̯n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfəʉ̯n/, /ˈfɐ̞ʉ̯n/
- Hyphenation: -phone
Suffix
[edit]-phone
- A type of sound.
- A device that makes a sound.
- Forming adjectives: speaking a certain language.
- Forming nouns: a speaker of a certain language.
Derived terms
[edit]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
other derived terms
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]type of sound
device that makes a sound
forming nouns: speaker of a certain language
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-phone m or f
- forming adjectives: -phone (speaking a specific language)
- forming nouns: -phone (speaker of a specific language)
Suffix
[edit]-phone m
Derived terms
[edit]speaker of a specific language
Further reading
[edit]- “-phone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeh₂- (speak)
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English suffixes
- English terms with usage examples
- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeh₂- (speak)
- French terms derived from Ancient Greek
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French suffixes
- French masculine suffixes
- French feminine suffixes
- French suffixes with multiple genders