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megaphone (n.)
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."
