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Telefono Phone La Estas Je Mi Mia Li

The word "telefono" means a device for communication via sound. It is borrowed from Greek and used in phrases like "The phone rings" or "I am talking by phone."

La vorto "telefono" signifas aparato por komunikado per sono. Ĝi estas pruntita el la greka kaj uzata ekzemple en frazoj kiel "La telefono sonas" aŭ "Mi parolas per telefono".

Frequency Rank of Word 353
Word telefono
Meanings
    telephone
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/telephone
Pinyin null
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Example Sentences
Wiktionary Entry
téléphone
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/t%C3%A9l%C3%A9phone#French
,
English
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
telephone
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/telephone#English
, from
Ancient Greek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek
τῆλε
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%84%E1%BF%86%CE%BB%CE%B5#Ancient_Greek
(têle, afar) +
φωνή
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%86%CF%89%CE%BD%CE%AE#Ancient_Greek
(phōnḗ, voice, sound).

Pronunciation

  • (
    file
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:LL-Q143_(epo)-Lepticed7-telefono.wav
    )
  • IPA
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
    (
    key
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
    )
    : /teleˈfono/
  • Hyphenation: te‧le‧fo‧no
  • Rhymes:
    -ono
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:Esperanto/ono

Noun

telefono (accusative singular

telefonon
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/telefonon#Esperanto
, plural
telefonoj
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/telefonoj#Esperanto
, accusative plural
telefonojn
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/telefonojn#Esperanto
)

  1. telephone
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/telephone

Related terms

  • telefoni
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/telefoni#Esperanto
    (to telephone)
  • telefonprefikso
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/telefonprefikso#Esperanto
    (dialing code, calling code)

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