téléphone
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From télé- + -phone from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]téléphone m (plural téléphones)
- telephone
- 1948, Maurice Blanchot, Le très-haut:
- Oui, certainement, elle pensait à ma mère, elle attendait un coup de téléphone, enfin n’importe quoi ; ce n’était pas mystérieux, elle n’aurait eu qu’à le dire pour m’en donner l’idée.
- Yes, certainly, she was thinking of my mother, she was waiting for a phone call, or whatever, it wasn't mysterious, all she had to do was say it to give me some idea.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Verb
[edit]téléphone
- inflection of téléphoner:
Further reading
[edit]- “téléphone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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