Where did the telephone get its name?

Answer 1

The cell phone got its name from the word cellular. Cell is the generic industry term. The word cell itself was given due to the physical appearance of the actual cell site installations that resemble a honeycomb shape.

Answer 2

The word telephone comes from the Greek tele, meaning far, and phon, meaning sound, and refers to the fact that it reproduces sound a distance.

Many languages have a tendency to shorten words for simplicity in speech, so in common usage the "tele" prefix was gradually dropped. In the past the word was sometimes written as 'phone, with an apostrophe indicating the missing syllable.

Answer 3

The radio equipment (slang: towers) that are positioned around to give coverage, create areas of coverage called a cell.

The cell will communicate with your cell phone until another cell can do the job better and then automatically change to the new cell.

Thus the nerds who designed the system called it a cell phone.

Answer 4

It's called that because "tele" means far away, and Phone, implies sound, so to hear somone from far away. Like television means to see something that's far away

Answer 5

The name telephone is based on Latin. It comes from the word "tele," which means "far away" plus the word "phon," which means "sound."

Answer 6

Tele is a prefix for distance, and phone is a speech or snippet of it. So a telephone is speech over distance. The intended use of a telephone.

Answer 7

From the Greek "Tele" (Far) and "Phone" (Voice).