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τηλεφωνήμα
phone call /ti.le.ˈfo.ni.ma/
nounB2#2029 most common
Also: telephone call, call (on the phone)
Example sentences
Έχω ένα τηλεφώνημα.
I have a phone call.
Περιμένω ένα τηλεφώνημα από τη μαμά μου.
I'm waiting for a phone call from my mom.
Της έκανα ένα τηλεφώνημα χθες το βράδυ.
I made her a phone call last night.
Δεν άκουσα το τηλεφώνημά σου γιατί κοιμόμουν.
I didn't hear your call because I was asleep.
Έλαβε ένα επείγον τηλεφώνημα από το νοσοκομείο.
She received an urgent call from the hospital.
Η υπόθεση εξιχνιάστηκε χάρη σε ένα ανώνυμο τηλεφώνημα που δέχθηκε η αστυνομία.
The case was solved thanks to an anonymous call the police received.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | το τηλεφώνημα | τα τηλεφωνήματα |
| Genitive | του τηλεφωνήματος | των τηλεφωνημάτων |
| Accusative | το τηλεφώνημα | τα τηλεφωνήματα |
| Vocative | τηλεφώνημα | τηλεφωνήματα |
Word family
τηλέφωνοtelephone (the device)τηλεφωνώto telephone, to callτηλεφωνικόςtelephonic, of the phone
τηλεφωνήτριαfemale telephone operator
Etymology
Τηλεφώνημα is a modern coinage, built to name the event of using the telephone. It comes from the verb τηλεφωνώ, 'to telephone,' which itself derives from τηλέφωνο, a 19th-century compound of τῆλε ('far off') and φωνή ('voice, sound'). The suffix -μα, added to the verb's aorist stem, forms a neuter noun naming the result of an action, so τηλεφώνημα denotes the completed act: a call placed or received, not the device itself.
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