- megaphone (n.)
[megaphone 词源字典]
- 1878, coined (perhaps by Thomas Edison, who invented it) from Greek megas "great" (see mega-) + phone "voice" (see fame (n.)). Related: Megaphonic. In Greek, megalophonia meant "grandiloquence," megalophonos "loud-voiced."[megaphone etymology, megaphone origin, 英语词源]