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  • -phone

    Origin

    From Ancient Greek φωνή (phone, "sound"), related to fame.

    Full definition of -phone

    Suffix

    1. A type of sound e.g. allophone.
    2. A device that makes a sound e.g. saxophone.
    3. A device related to the telephone e.g. textphone.
    4. A speaker of a certain language e.g. Francophone.
    5. Part of some classical names, e.g., Persephone, Tisiphone.

    Derived terms

    type of sound
    • allophone
    • homophone
    • xenophone
    speaker of a specific language
    • anglophone
    • arabophone
    • armenophone
    • batavophone
    • celtophone
    • danophone
    • etruscophone
    • fennophone
    • francophone
    • gallophone
    • germanophone
    • graecophone, grecophone
    • hebraeophone
    • hibernophone
    • hindophone, indophone
    • hungarophone
    • hispanophone
    • iaponophone
    • italophone
    • latinophone
    • lusophone
    • norvegophone
    • persophone
    • polonophone
    • romanophone
    • russophone
    • sinophone
    • slavophone
    • suahelophone
    • suecophone, suedophone
    • teutophone
    • turcophone
    • vascophone
    a sound-transmitting device
    • Dictaphone
    • earphone
    • geophone
    • aerophone
    • hydrophone
    • gramophone
    • headphone
    • heckelphone
    • hydrophone
    • interphone
    • megaphone
    • mellophone
    • metallophone
    • microphone
    • radiophone
    • radiotelephone
    • saxophone
    • sousaphone
    • speakerphone
    • stylophone
    • telephone
    • vibraphone
    • videophone
    • xylophone
    other derived terms
    • -phonic
    • -phony
    • allophone
    • polyphone
    • tisiphone
    © Wiktionary



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