-phone

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek φωνή, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoh₂neh₂, from *bʰeh₂-; related to fame and fable.

Some terms ending in phone, such as textphone, are actually compounds made with phone.

Suffix

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

Translations

• French: -phone
• Italian: -fono
• Portuguese: -fone

Translations

• French: -phone
• Portuguese: -fone

Translations

• French: -phone
• Portuguese: -fono

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