Etymograph

English

textphone

From text + phone.

A compound of text + phone

Proto-Italic *teksō

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Latin textus ‘style or texture of a work’

Medieval Latin textus ‘text’

Old French texte

Middle English text

English text

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- ‘to shine’

Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́

Ancient Greek φωνή ‘sound’

French téléphone

English telephone

English phone

Today it means

noun A telephone with a simple keyboard and a small screen, used by the deaf.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “textphone”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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