fono

Borrowed from Russian фон (fon), from French fond, ultimately from Latin fundus (“ground, foundation, bottom”). Compare Italian fondo. Doublet of fundo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfono/

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• Rhymes: -ono
• Syllabification: fo‧no

fono (accusative singular fonon, plural fonoj, accusative plural fonojn)

1. (art) background, backdrop

From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.no/
• Rhymes: -ɔno
• Hyphenation: fò‧no

fono m (plural foni)

1. (phonetics) phone (speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties)

• fono in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• fono in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• fono in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• fòno in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

fono

1. social class of headmen
2. assembly of headmen
3. Parliament

From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfono/ [ˈfo.no]
• Rhymes: -ono
• Syllabification: fo‧no

fono m (plural fonos)

1. (chiefly Chile) telephone, blower
2. (phonetics) phone (speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties)

• “fono”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸo.n̪o/

fono

1. (transitive) to not want

   Antonyms: seba, tope

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics