télégraphe

French

Etymology

From télé- +‎ -graphe, coined by André François Miot de Mélito in 1792 as a replacement for Claude Chappe's tachygraphe (literally “fast writer”), a communication system based on semaphores.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te.le.ɡʁaf/
Audio (France, Paris) (file)
Rhymes: -af
Homophone: télégraphes

Noun

télégraphe m (plural télégraphes)

telegraph

Further reading

“télégraphe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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