megaphone的词源

英文词源

megaphone (n.)

1878, coined (perhaps by Thomas Edison, who invented it) from Greek megas "great" (see mega-) + phone "voice" (see fame (n.)). Related: Megaphonic. In Greek, megalophonia meant "grandiloquence," megalophonos "loud-voiced."

中文词源

megaphone：扩音器

megalo-,巨大的，-phone,声音，词源同phone,fame.用于指扩音器。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：megaphone 词源，megaphone 含义。

megaphone：话筒，扩音器 

词根词缀： -mega-巨大的 + -phon-声音 + -e