English Explanatory Dictionary

-phone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. A type of sound.
  2. A device that makes a sound.
  3. Forming adjectives: speaking a certain language.
  4. Forming nouns: a speaker of a certain language.

Pronunciation

/ˈfəʊ̯n/ /ˈfoʊ̯n/ /ˈfɔʊ̯n/ en-us-phone.ogg /ˈfəʉ̯n/ /ˈfɐ̞ʉ̯n/

Word forms

-phone

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der. English -phone 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.

Related words

phone phono-

Derived words

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 heterophone
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