-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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊ̯n/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊ̯n/, /ˈfɔʊ̯n/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʉ̯n/, /ˈfɐ̞ʉ̯n/
• Hyphenation: -phone

-phone

1. A type of sound.

   allophone; homophone

2. A device that makes a sound.

   aerophone; saxophone

3. Forming adjectives: speaking a certain language.

   Anglophone; Francophone; Germanophone

4. Forming nouns: a speaker of a certain language.

   Anglophone; Francophone; Germanophone

• nepho-, pheno-, pheon

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

• IPA^(key): /fɔn/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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-phone m or f

1. forming adjectives: -phone (speaking a specific language)
2. forming nouns: -phone (speaker of a specific language)

-phone m

1. forming nouns: -phone (something that makes a sound e.g. saxophone)

• “-phone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012