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Phone Telephone Greek Phōné Bha English Fable Fame

正面 558.phone
英 [fəʊn]美 [fon]

背面
释义:
n. 电话;耳机,听筒vt. 打电话vi. 打电话n. (Phone)人名;(老、缅)蓬
例句:
1. I took the phone, and she went discreetly into the living room.我拿起了电话,她知趣地进了客厅。

1. iPhone (苹果手机) => phone.
phone 电话缩写自telephone.
phonephone: [20] Phone is of course short for telephone [19], a compound word formed from Greek tēle- ‘far off’ and phōné ‘voice, sound’ (a descendant of the Indo-European base *bha- ‘speak’, and related to English fable, fame, fate, etc). Other English words derived from or based on phōné include gramophone, megaphone [19], microphone, phonetic [19], phonology [18], saxophone, and xylophone.=> fable, fame, fatephone (n.1)1884, shortening of telephone (n.). Phone book first recorded 1925; phone booth 1927; phone bill 1901.phone (v.)1884, from phone (n.). Related: Phoned; phoning.phone (n.2)"elementary sound of a spoken language," 1866, from Greek phone "sound, voice," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.))."

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