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-phonous

-phonous suffix: of the sound, voice, or speech sound of the specified type.

Suffix

-phonous

  1. Of the sound, voice, or speech sound of the specified type.
    • What the writer says on the subject of accent, as it may be marked on that uniphonous instrument the drum, illustrates what had been written on the subject a century ago, by Malcolm; […]1832, “The Westminster Review”, in The Harmonicon, part I ([…]), London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, […], →OCLC, page 241, column 2
    • Micrŏphōnus, a, um. (Μικρός, small; φωνή, the voice.) Med., Physiol. Having a slender weak voice: micropho′nous.1857, R[obert] G[ray] Mayne, An Expository Lexicon of the Terms, Ancient and Modern, in Medical and General Science; […], London: John Churchill, […], published 1860, →OCLC, page 698, column 1
    Synonyms:
    -phonic

Synonyms of -phonous

Origin of -phonous

Adapted borrowing of Ancient Greek -φωνος (-phōnos) + -ous. By surface analysis, -phone + -ous.

Questions about -phonous

What does -phonous mean?
-phonous means of the sound, voice, or speech sound of the specified type.
What part of speech is -phonous?
-phonous is a suffix.

Words near -phonous in the dictionary

  1. -phobics
  2. -phone
  3. -phonia
  4. -phonic
  5. -phonics
  6. -phonous
  7. -phony
  8. -phor
  9. -phore
  10. -phoresis
  11. -phoretic

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