homophony

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromὁμοφωνία“unison”
2. French · borrowed fromhomophonie
3. English todayhomophony

Internationalism, from French homophonie, from Ancient Greek ὁμοφωνία (homophōnía, “unison”), from ὁμόφωνος (homóphōnos, “of the same sound or tone”). By surface analysis, homo- + -phony.