fono

See also: fonò, fono-, and -fono

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian фон (fon), from French fond, ultimately from Latin fundus (“ground, foundation, bottom”). Compare Italian fondo. Doublet of fundo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfono/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -ono
• Syllabification: fo‧no

Noun

fono (accusative singular fonon, plural fonoj, accusative plural fonojn)

1. (art) background, backdrop

Italian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.

Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)

Italian fono

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.no/
• Rhymes: -ɔno
• Hyphenation: fò‧no

Noun

fono m (plural foni)

1. (phonetics) phone (speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties)

Related terms

• -fono
• fono-

Further reading

• fono in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• fono in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• fono in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• fòno in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Samoan

Noun

fono

1. social class of headmen
2. assembly of headmen
3. Parliament

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfono/ [ˈfo.no]
• Rhymes: -ono
• Syllabification: fo‧no

Noun

fono m (plural fonos)

1. (chiefly Chile) telephone, blower
2. (phonetics) phone (speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties)

Further reading

• “fono”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸo.n̪o/

Verb

fono

1. (transitive) to not want

   Antonyms: seba, tope

Conjugation

Conjugation of fono (action verb)

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tofono	mofono	afono
2nd person		nofono	fofono
3rd person	inanimate	ifono	dofono
	animate
imperative		nofono, fono	fofono, fono

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics