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Language: Latin
Origin: Greek, from phone 'sound, voice'

phono-

 prefix
     
phono- also phon- technical
1XX relating to the voice or speech:
phonetics (=the science of speech sounds)
2 relating to sound:
a phonoreceptor (=a hearing organ)
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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