telepheme
(ˈtɛlɪfiːm)
[f. tele- + Gr. ϕήµη voice, report, message, etc.]
Name for a message sent by telephone; a telephonic communication.
| 1882 W. Balestier in Rochester (N.Y.) Post-Express 5 Aug. (Cent.), We shall ask a dispensation to permit us to introduce a new word..telepheme. The use of such phrases as ‘telephonic communication’, ‘telephonic message’, ‘news by telephone’, and the like seems a little clumsy. 1898 R. O. Heslop Let. to Editor, Telepheme: a telephonic message. The term is occasionally met with in commercial correspondence. |