Translation
telephone, phone
Word origin
An international borrowing built from Greek tele ('far') and phone ('voice, sound'). Esperanto simply regularised the spelling the rest of Europe already shared.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- tēle + phōnē
- English cognates
- telephone, phonetics
Examples
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My phone is in the house.
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She is talking on the telephone.
?
Do you have a new phone?
The verb is , and you phone somebody: telefonos . A mobile is a , a pocket telephone, which is a more honest name than smartphone. The stress falls on the second o, te-le-FO-no.
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