"téléphone" meaning in French

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Noun

IPA: /te.le.fɔn/ Audio: Fr-téléphone.ogg Forms: téléphones [plural]
Etymology: From télé- + -phone from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”). Etymology templates: {{af|fr|télé-|-phone}} télé- + -phone, {{uder|fr|grc|τῆλε||afar}} Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”), {{m|grc|φωνή||voice, sound}} φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”) Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} téléphone m (plural téléphones)
  1. telephone Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Telephony

Verb

IPA: /te.le.fɔn/ Audio: Fr-téléphone.ogg
Etymology: From télé- + -phone from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”). Etymology templates: {{af|fr|télé-|-phone}} télé- + -phone, {{uder|fr|grc|τῆλε||afar}} Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”), {{m|grc|φωνή||voice, sound}} φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”) Head templates: {{head|fr|verb form}} téléphone
  1. inflection of téléphoner:
    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    Tags: first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person
    Sense id: en-téléphone-fr-verb-Ck1ooWbI Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, French terms prefixed with télé-, French terms suffixed with -phone, French undefined derivations Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 1 72 27 Disambiguation of French terms prefixed with télé-: 3 48 48 Disambiguation of French terms suffixed with -phone: 6 62 32 Disambiguation of French undefined derivations: 2 65 33
  2. inflection of téléphoner:
    second-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, second-person, singular
    Sense id: en-téléphone-fr-verb-zjmWV67f Categories (other): French terms prefixed with télé- Disambiguation of French terms prefixed with télé-: 3 48 48

Inflected forms

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