English

Hispanophone

From Hispano- + -phone.

Latin Hispānia

Latin Hispānus ‘Spaniard’

Spanish hispano ‘Spanish’

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- ‘to shine’

Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́

Ancient Greek φωνή ‘sound’

French téléphone

English telephone

English phone

Today it means

adj Spanish-speaking.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Hispanophone