-phone
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- Sound:
声音：
homophone.
同音字母 - Device that receives or emits sound:
接收或传送声音的设备：
geophone.
地音探听器 - Speaker of a language:
讲某种语言的人：
Anglophone.
讲英语的人
语源
- From Greek phōnē [sound, voice] * see bhā- 2
源自 希腊语 phōnē [声音，声响] *参见 bhā- 2
-phone
combining form
(forming nouns) indicating voice, sound, or a device giving off sound
⇒
microphone
⇒
telephone
(forming nouns and adjectives) (a person) speaking a particular language
⇒
Francophone
Derived Forms
-phonic combining form in adjectiveOrigin
from Greek phōnē voice, sound-phone
Word Origin
1
a combining form meaning “speech sound” (homophone), “an instrument of sound transmission or reproduction” (telephone), “a musical instrument” (saxophone; xylophone).
Origin
see phone2
Related Words
- -phony
- aerophone
- Anglophone
- audiphone
- cacophonous
- chordophone
-phonea word element meaning 'sound', especially used in names of instruments, as in xylophone, megaphone, telephone.
[combining form representing Greek phōnē]-phone
noun combining form
homophone
— often in names of musical instruments and sound-transmitting devices
radiophone
xylophone
2. speaker of (a specified language)
Francophone
adjective combining form
Francophone
| I |
ETYMOLOGY Greek -phōnos sounding, from phōnē
1. soundhomophone
— often in names of musical instruments and sound-transmitting devices
radiophone
xylophone
2. speaker of (a specified language)
Francophone
| II |
ETYMOLOGY French, from Greek -phōnos
: of or relating to a population that speaks (a specified language)Francophone
-phone
combining form
1.
- denoting an instrument using or connected with sound表示“利用（或传递）声音的装置”：
-
megaphone.
2.
- denoting a person who uses a specified language表示“使用某种语言的人”：
-
francophone.
词源
from Greek phōnē 'sound, voice'.
1900 Anglophone . [ see francophonen. and a.]
1937 Bulgarophone . [ see Exarchist]
1977 Times Litt. Suppl. 18 Mar. 295/5His description of Turcophones in Iran (of whom he is one) as a ‘nation’.
-phone
word-forming element meaning "voice, sound," also "speaker of," from Greek phone "voice, sound," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, say, tell" (cognates: Latin for, fari "to speak," fama "talk, report;" see fame, n.).
ORIGIN: Greek phōnē sound, voice, phōnos sounding.
☞ phone
-phone
\ˌfōn\ noun combining form
(-s)
Etymology: Late Latin -phona, from Late Greek -phōna, from Greek, neuter plural of -phōnos -sounding, from phōnein to sound
: sound : voice — in names of musical instruments and sound-transmitting devices
< saxophone >
< earphone >
< radiophone >
< saxophone >
< earphone >
< radiophone >
-phone
Suffix
- A type of sound.
- allophone; homophone
- A device that makes a sound.
- aerophone; saxophone
- A device related to the telephone.
- textphone
- A speaker of a certain language.
- Anglophone; Francophone; Germanophone
Etymology
From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”), Proto-Indo-European *bʰoh₂neh₂, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”), related to fame.
Derived terms
type of sound
speaker of a specific language
a sound-transmitting device
other derived terms