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Telephone is from the Greek tele meaning "far" and phone meaning "voice". There's Greek accents in the actual spelling, but I don't know how to do those on my laptop :-)
Phonograph ("sound writing") was derived from the Greek words φωνή (meaning "sound" or "voice" and transliterated as phonē) and γραφή (meaning "writing" and transliterated as graphē).
The word "xylophone" is of Greek origin. It comes from the combination of the Greek words "xylon" (wood) and "phone" (sound), which accurately describes the instrument as a wooden percussion device that produces sound.
The word "microphone" comes from the Greek words "micros," meaning small, and "phone," meaning sound. It was first coined in the late 19th century to describe a device that converts sound waves into electrical signals.
The root word of "homophone" is "phone", which comes from the Greek word "phōnē" meaning "sound" or "voice".
Onomatopoeia - meaning the imitation of a sound. From a Greek word 'making or creating names'
From the same word, phone, meaning voice or sound
From both Latin and Greek 'Echo', a mountain nymph. Or Ekhe meaning 'sound'
The word "telephone" comes from two Greek words, "tele" meaning distant and "phone" meaning sound or voice. When combined, it refers to a device that transmits sound over a distance, which is the basic function of a telephone.
The Greek roots of "telephone" are tele- "at a distance" and phoneo "speak."
There are many Greek roots in the English language. Some of these include anthrop (human), chron (time), dem (people), and phon (sound).
From the Greek words meaning "from far away" and "to see", it means a device to which a picture and sound can be broadcast by means of radio waves or a cable.