The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφωνή
- Latin · derived fromFranco-“French”
- French · derived fromFrancophonie
- English todayFrancophone
Altered and reinterpreted from French Francophonie, with semantic influence from Latin Franco- (“French”) + Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ), Franco- + -phone.
Words from the same roots
FrenchFrancophonie all →
francophonie
Ancient Greekφωνή all →
telephonesaxophonephononphonationapophonydentiphone-phone-phonicphono-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.