knapptelefon
Swedish
1. Knapptelefon (1969)
2. Knapptelefon (2007)
Etymology
knapp + telefon, at least since 1973, probably a decade older; virtually obsolete around 2000, when dial telephones were no longer used; then revived again after the introduction in 2007 of the smartphone
Noun
knapptelefon c
- a push-button telephone, keypad telephone, a fixed-line telephone that does not have a rotary dial
- a featurephone, a mobile telephone (after the 2007 introduction of the iPhone) that is not a smartphone
Declension
| Declension of knapptelefon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | knapptelefon | knapptelefonen | knapptelefoner | knapptelefonerna |
| Genitive | knapptelefons | knapptelefonens | knapptelefoners | knapptelefonernas |
Synonyms
- knappsatstelefon
- knappvalstelefon
Antonyms
- fingerskivstelefon
- pekmobil
- smarttelefon
References
- knapptelefon in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
- knapptelefon in Eriterm : femspråkig ordlista för telekommunikation (1992)
- knapptelefon in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (10th ed., 1st printing, 1973)
- knappsatstelefon, knapptelefon in Ingvar E. Gullberg, Svensk-engelsk fackordbok för näringsliv, förvaltning, undervisning och forskning (1977)