Etymology

luminaphone

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Today it means: A kind of organ whose keys project light beams through perforated revolving disks onto selenium cells in order to produce electrical vibrations that generate the sound. Full definition →

Latin lūmen
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  1. Latin · derived fromlūmen“light”
  2. English todayluminaphone

From Latin lūmen (“light”) + -phone.

Words from the same roots

Latinlūmen all →

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