gramophone

gramophone

See also: Gramophone

English

Etymology

From the trademark Gramophone, coined by German-American inventor Emile Berliner in 1887 after the invention of the first phonograph, from Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, “letter”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: grămʹ-ə-fōn', IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæm.ə.ˌfəʊn/
  • (US) [ˈɡɹæm.ə.ˌfoʊn]

    • Audio (US)

      (file)

  • (UK) [ˈɡɹæm.ə.ˌfəʊn]
• Rhymes: -æməfəʊn

Noun

gramophone (plural gramophones)

1. (Britain, dated) A record player.

Synonyms

• phonograph (North America)

Translations

record player

Arabic: غْرَامَافُون‎ m (ḡrāmāfūn), فُونُوغْرَاف‎ m (fūnūḡrāf) Armenian: գրամոֆոն (hy) (gramofon), պատեֆոն (hy) (patefon) Azerbaijani: qrammafon Belarusian: прайграва́льнік m (prajhraválʹnik), грамафо́н m (hramafón), патэфо́н m (patefón) Bulgarian: грамофо́н m (gramofón) Chinese: Mandarin: 留聲機／留声机 (zh) (liúshēngjī), 唱機／唱机 (zh) (chàngjī), 電唱機／电唱机 (zh) (diànchàngjī) Danish: grammofon (da), pladespiller c Dutch: grammofoon (nl) m, platenspeler (nl) m Esperanto: gramofono Faroese: grammofon f Finnish: gramofoni (fi) French: gramophone (fr) m Galician: gramófono m Georgian: გრამაფონი (gramaponi) German: Grammophon (de) n Greek: γραμμόφωνο (el) n (grammófono) Hebrew: גְּרָמוֹפוֹן‎ (he) m (gramofón) Hindi: ग्रामोफ़ोन (grāmofon) Italian: giradischi (it) m, grammofono (it) m Japanese: 蓄音機 (ja) (ちくおんき, chikuonki) Korean: 축음기 (ko) (chugeumgi) Macedonian: грамофо́н m (gramofón) Malay: gramofon (ms) Persian: گرامافون‎ (fa) (gerâmâfon) Polish: gramofon (pl) m, adapter (pl) m Portuguese: gramofone (pt) m Romanian: gramofon (ro) n Russian: прои́грыватель (ru) m (proígryvatelʹ), граммофо́н (ru) m (grammofón), патефо́н (ru) m (patefón) (manual) Spanish: gramola f Swahili: gramafoni Swedish: grammofon (sv) c Thai: หีบเสียง (hìip-sǐiang) Turkish: gramofon (tr) Ukrainian: грамофо́н m (hramofón), патефо́н m (patefón) (manual), програва́ч m (prohraváč) Vietnamese: máy hát (vi) Yiddish: גראַמאָפֿאָן‎ m (gramofon) Yoruba: giramafóònù

References

• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “gramophone”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume II (D–Hoon), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.

Further reading

• gramophone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From English gramophone.

Noun

gramophone m (plural gramophones)

1. gramophone

   Synonym: phonographe

Further reading

• “gramophone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.