telephone（テレフォン）
要点電話機、電話、電話をかける
意味
- 電話機
- 電話(《話》phone)
- 〈人〉に電話をかける
- 〈場所〉に電話をかける
- 電話をかける
例文
On hearing the bell, she answered the telephone.
ベルが鳴るのを聞くとすぐに彼女は電話にでた。
Telephone and facsimile numbers will not change.
電話番号とＦＡＸ番号は変わりません。
Not knowing what to do, I telephoned the police.
どうしてよいかわからなかったので、私は警察に電話した。
語源
tele-遠く＋phone音
「遠く(tele)の音(phone)」を届ける装置「電話」。
television・telescopeのtele、microphoneのphoneも同じ。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The noun is derived from tele- (prefix meaning ‘from a distance’) + -phone (suffix denoting a device which makes a sound), modelled after German Telephon (“early apparatus converting sound into electrical signals”) (dated) (now German Telefon). The word was first used to refer to the modern device in 1876 by the Scottish-born Canadian-American engineer Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922). The prefix tele- is ultimately derived from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar, far away, far off”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- (“to turn end-over-end; to revolve around; hence, to dwell, sojourn”).