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- phono-



[phono- 词源字典] - word-forming element meaning "sound, voice," from Greek phono-, comb. form of phone "voice, sound," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)).[phono- etymology, phono- origin, 英语词源]
- phonogram (n.)




- 1845, "a written symbol," from phono- + -gram. From 1879 as "a sound recording."
- phonograph (n.)




- 1835, "character representing a sound," literally "writer of sounds," from phono- "sound" + -graph "instrument for recording; something written." Meaning "an instrument that produces sounds from records" (talking phonograph, invented by Thomas A. Edison) it is attested from 1877. The recording made from it at first was called a phonogram (1879).
- phonographic (adj.)




- 1840, originally in reference to shorthand; see phono- + graphic. Modern sense from 1878.
- phonolite (n.)




- a kind of volcanic rock that rings when struck, c. 1830, literally "sounding stone," from phono- + -lite. Based on German klingstein.
- phonological (adj.)




- 1818, from phonology + -ical. Related: Phonologically.
- phonology (n.)




- 1799, from phono- + -logy.
- phonophobia (n.)




- 1877, from phono- + -phobia.
- phonometer




- "An instrument for measuring or automatically recording the intensity of sound", Early 19th cent.; earliest use found in The New Monthly Magazine. From phono- + -meter.
- phonovision




- "A system of television, invented by John Logie Baird but never publicly demonstrated, whereby vision and sound signals could be recorded on discs similar to gramophone records", 1920s; earliest use found in Punch.