interfone

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teʁˈfõ.ni/ [ĩ.tehˈfõ.ni]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teʁˈfõ.ni/ [ĩ.tehˈfõ.ni]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teɾˈfõ.ni/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teʁˈfõ.ni/ [ĩ.teχˈfõ.ni]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teɻˈfõ.ni/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teʁˈfo.ne/ [ĩ.tehˈfo.ne]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɛɾˈfɔ.nɨ/

• Rhymes: -oni
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧fo‧ne

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér

Proto-Italic *n̥ter

Latin inter

Latin inter-lbor.

Portuguese inter-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.

Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́

Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)lbor.

Portuguese -fone

Portuguese interfone

From inter- + -fone.

Noun

interfone m (plural interfones)

1. intercom (an electronic communication system between rooms in a building)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

interfone

1. inflection of interfonar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “interfone”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026