télégraphe
French
Etymology
From télé- + -graphe, coined by André François Miot de Mélito in 1792 as a replacement for Claude Chappe's tachygraphe (literally “fast writer”), a communication system based on semaphores.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te.le.ɡʁaf/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -af
- Homophone: télégraphes
Noun
télégraphe m (plural télégraphes)
- telegraph
Further reading
- “télégraphe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.