phono-youdaoicibaDictYouDict[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.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1845, "a written symbol," from phono- + -gram. From 1879 as "a sound recording."
phonograph (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
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.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1840, originally in reference to shorthand; see phono- + graphic. Modern sense from 1878.
phonolite (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
a kind of volcanic rock that rings when struck, c. 1830, literally "sounding stone," from phono- + -lite. Based on German klingstein.
phonological (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1818, from phonology + -ical. Related: Phonologically.
phonology (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1799, from phono- + -logy.
phonophobia (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1877, from phono- + -phobia.
phonometeryoudaoicibaDictYouDict
"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.
phonovisionyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
"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.