-phonecomb. form

Primary stress is retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element and vowels may be reduced accordingly.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek -ϕωνος.

Etymology: < ancient Greek -ϕωνος, combining form (in e.g. βαρβαρόϕωνος speaking a foreign language, ὁμόϕωνος speaking the same language, having the same sound or tone) of ϕωνή voice, sound, language, probably < the base of ϕάναι to say (see phatic adj.). Compare French -phone, German -phon.First recorded in loans from Greek, as homophone n., polyphone n.; formations within English (e.g. dyphone n., microphone n.) are found from the 17th cent. and become very common from the first half of the 19th cent. onwards.

1. Forming nouns with the sense ‘making or relating to sound’.

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a. Designating scientific and musical instruments, as gramophone n., megaphone n., microphone n., saxophone n., telephone n.

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b. Linguistics. Designating units of speech sound, as allophone n.¹, homophone n.

2. Forming adjectives and nouns with the sense ‘that speaks’ or ‘speakers of’ (a particular language), as anglophone n. and adj., francophone n. and adj.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

单词	-phone
释义	-phonecomb. form Primary stress is retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element and vowels may be reduced accordingly. Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek -ϕωνος. Etymology: < ancient Greek -ϕωνος, combining form (in e.g. βαρβαρόϕωνος speaking a foreign language, ὁμόϕωνος speaking the same language, having the same sound or tone) of ϕωνή voice, sound, language, probably < the base of ϕάναι to say (see phatic adj.). Compare French -phone, German -phon.First recorded in loans from Greek, as homophone n., polyphone n.; formations within English (e.g. dyphone n., microphone n.) are found from the 17th cent. and become very common from the first half of the 19th cent. onwards. 1. Forming nouns with the sense ‘making or relating to sound’. Categories » a. Designating scientific and musical instruments, as gramophone n., megaphone n., microphone n., saxophone n., telephone n. Categories » b. Linguistics. Designating units of speech sound, as allophone n.¹, homophone n. 2. Forming adjectives and nouns with the sense ‘that speaks’ or ‘speakers of’ (a particular language), as anglophone n. and adj., francophone n. and adj. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < comb. form
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