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.
diaphone
1. A set of all the different ways that a particular speech sound is pronounced in all the dialects of a language, or a member of this set.
2. A foghorn with a two-note sound.
3. A powerful pipe-organ stop of the peculiar construction of 8-foot, 16-foot, or 32-foot pitch.
diaphoneme, diaphonous
A category or a member of a category consisting of the entire range of dialectal variants of an allophone.
diaphony
Dissonance as opposed to symphony.
DictaphoneŽ
A trademark for a small hand-held tape recorder used for dictation.
diphonia
The production of two different tones when speaking; also called double voice.
diplophonia
The production of double vocal sounds; also diphthongia.
dodecaphony, dodecaphonic
Relating to, composed in, or consisting of twelve-tone music.
dophonomancy
Divination by interpreting the crackle sound of a laurel branch on a fire (the same as daphnomancy).
dysphonia, dysphonic
1. Difficulty in producing articulate speech sounds.
2. Impairment of the voice manifested by hoarseness or other defects of phonation due to organic, functional, or psychic causes.
3. Difficulty in speaking; hoarseness which may be due to public speaking.
The term also refers to the change or breaking in the voice of boys during puberty.
dystrophoneurosis
Defective nutrition caused by disease of the nervous system.
earphone
Any device that converts electrical energy into sound waves and is worn over or inserted into the auditory opening; such as the ear.
echophony, echophonia
A duplication of the voice sound occasionally heard during auscultation of the chest.
egophony; egophonic
A peculiar broken quality of the voice sounds; such as, the bleating of a goat, heard around the upper level of the fluid in cases of pleurisy with effusion.
electrocardiophonogram
The record obtained by electrocardiophonography (a method of electrically recording the heart sounds).
electrocardiophonographic
A reference to a method of electrically recording the sounds of the heart.
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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