phon-, phono-, -phone, -phonia, -phonic, -phonetic, -phonous, -phonically, -phonetically, -phony +
(Greek: sound, voice, speech, tone)
This phono-, phon- should not be confused with another phono-, phon- that means "slaughter, murder, homicide". In Greek, a distinction is made between the phonos (PHOH nohs), "murder", which is spelled with the Greek letter omicron in the last syllable; and the Greek phonos (phoh NOHS), "voice", which is spelled with the letter omega in the last syllable. Both omicron and omega became the letter "o" in English.
phonasthenia
1. Difficult or abnormal voice production, the enunciation being too high, too loud, or too hard.
2. Weakness or hoarseness of the voice; especially, that which results from bodily exhaustion.
phonate
1. To produce or to articulate speech sounds; to use the voice.
2. The utterance of sounds by means of the vocal folds; the basis of speech.
phonation
The act or process of uttering with a voice; the production of phones or speech (vocal) sounds.
phonatory
A reference to phonation.
phonautograph, phonautography, phonautographic
1. An apparatus for automatically recording the vibrations of sound, including the voice, by means of a membrane set in vibration by the sound-waves, and having a point attached which makes a tracing upon a revolving cylinder.
2. An instrument where by a sound can be made to produce a visible record of itself.
phone
1. A reference to various “sound” instruments; such as, an earphone or a telephone.
2. A speech sound identified as one of the variants of a phoneme.
3. Short for telephone, telephone receiver, etc.
phoneidoscope, phoneidoscopic
1. An instrument for exhibiting the color-figures produced by the action of sound-vibrations upon a thin film, e.g. of soap-solution.
2. An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies with optical methods.
phoneme
1. The smallest unit of speech that distinguishes one utterance from another in all of the variations that it displays in the speech of a single person or particular dialect as the result of modifying influences (as neighboring sounds and stress).
2. The smallest sound unit which, in terms of phonetic sequences of sound, controls meaning.
3. The basic phonologic unit of a spoken language, identified in terms of a particular vowel or consonant.
4. An auditory hallucination of voices and spoken words.
phonemic
Relating to the analysis of speech by phoneme identification.
phonemics
A branch of linguistics dealing with the study of the phonemes of a language.
phonendoscope
A stethoscope for intensifying auscultatory sounds by means of a chest piece consisting of a shallow metal cup closed by a diaphragm; also, auscultoscope.
phonendoskiascope
A phonendoscope combined with a screen on which movements of the heart or lungs can be observed during auscultation.
phonesis
The utterance of vocal sounds; phonation.
phonestheme
The common feature of sound occurring in a group of symbolic words.
phonetic
1. Of or relating to spoken language or speech sounds; such as, phonetic developments in English since Chaucer’s time; and phonetic differences between ancient and modern Greek.
2. Of or relating to the science of phonetics. 4. Constituting an alteration of the ordinary orthographic spelling that better represents its value in the spoken language, which employs only characters of the regular alphabet, and that is used in a context of conventionally spelled orthographies; for example, thru and nite are fairly common phonetic spellings.
5. Constituting those characters in some ancient writings (as Egyptian) that represent speech sounds as distinguished from such as are ideographic or pictorial
6. Representing speech sounds by means of symbols that have one value only as in this phonetic system, g always has the value of g in go, never of gin and gem.
7. Employing for speech sounds more than the minimum number of symbols necessary to represent the significant differences in a speaker’s speech; contrasted with phonemic.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.":
cit-;
clam-;
dic-;
English Words: Origins and Histories;
fa-;
-farious;
glosso-;
glotto-;
lalo-;
linguo-;
locu-;
logo-;
loqu-;
mythico-;
-ology;
ora-;
-phasia;
-phemia;
phras-;
Quotes: Language,Part 1;
Quotes: Language, Part 2;
Quotes: Language, Part 3;
serm-;
tongue;
voc-.
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