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Stereophonic is a Greek word.

It is a composite, made up of στερεό (stereo), meaning solid, and φωνή (phone), meaning voice (and hence sound).

(I suppose the namer of the sound system used the term solid to imply that the sound seemed to come from all around a 3-dimensional space resembling a solid, such as a cube, as opposed to the hollow or tinny sound of earlier systems that clearly came from one point - the radio.)

When speaking of their stereos, the Greeks say στερεοφωνικό (stereofonico) or simply στέρεο (stereo).

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