telefono

See also: teléfono and telefonò

Basque

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

telefono ?

1. telephone

Declension

Declension of telefono (inanimate, ending in vowel)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	telefono	telefonoa	telefonoak
ergative	telefonok	telefonoak	telefonoek
dative	telefonori	telefonoari	telefonoei
genitive	telefonoren	telefonoaren	telefonoen
comitative	telefonorekin	telefonoarekin	telefonoekin
causative	telefonorengatik	telefonoarengatik	telefonoengatik
benefactive	telefonorentzat	telefonoarentzat	telefonoentzat
instrumental	telefonoz	telefonoaz	telefonoez
inessive	telefonotan	telefonoan	telefonoetan
locative	telefonotako	telefonoko	telefonoetako
allative	telefonotara	telefonora	telefonoetara
terminative	telefonotaraino	telefonoraino	telefonoetaraino
directive	telefonotarantz	telefonorantz	telefonoetarantz
destinative	telefonotarako	telefonorako	telefonoetarako
ablative	telefonotatik	telefonotik	telefonoetatik
partitive	telefonorik	—	—
prolative	telefonotzat	—	—

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [tə.ləˈfo.nu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [tə.ləˈfo.no]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [te.leˈfo.no]

Verb

telefono

1. first-person singular present indicative of telefonar

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French téléphone, from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”). Compare English telephone, Yiddish טעלעפֿאָן (telefon), German Telefon, Polish telefon, Russian телефо́н (telefón), Italian telefono.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [teleˈfono]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ono
• Hyphenation: te‧le‧fo‧no

Noun

telefono (accusative singular telefonon, plural telefonoj, accusative plural telefonojn)

1. telephone

   Hyponyms: retpoŝtelefono, poŝtelefono, saĝtelefono

Related terms

• telefoni (“to telephone”)
• telefonnumero (“telephone number”)
• telefonprefikso (“dialing code, calling code”)

Galician

Verb

telefono

1. first-person singular present indicative of telefonar

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teleˈfono/

Noun

telefono (plural telefoni)

1. a telephone call, a phone call, a call

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teˈlɛ.fo.no/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛfono
• Hyphenation: te‧lè‧fo‧no

Etymology 1

From tele- +‎ -fono, influenced by English telephone and French téléphone.

Noun

telefono m (plural telefoni)

1. telephone, phone

   chiamare qualcuno al telefono ― to call/phone somebody

   numero di telefono ― phone number

Derived terms

• elenco del telefono
• numero di telefono
• supplì al telefono
• telefonare
• telefonata
• telefonia
• telefonico
• telefonino
• telefonista
• telefono pubblico

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

telefono

1. first-person singular present indicative of telefonare

Further reading

• telefono on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /te.leˈfõ.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /te.leˈfõ.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /te.leˈfo.no/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨ.lɨˈfɔ.nu/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɔnu, (Brazil) -õnu
• Hyphenation: te‧le‧fo‧no

Verb

telefono

1. first-person singular present indicative of telefonar