Where does “telefonare” come from?

telefonare (Italian) comes from Romanian telefona, from French téléphoner, from French téléphone, from French télé-, from Ancient Greek τῆλε, from Latin commūnicāre, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin, gum; to say, speak.

telefonare (Italian): to telephone, to call, to make a phone call

Definitions

to telephone, to call, to make a phone call

Ancestry of “telefonare”, step by step

telefonare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Romanian telefona

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Romanian	telefona	to call, to phone
2	French	téléphoner	To call, to ring, to telephone
3	French	téléphone	telephone; first-person singular present...
4	French	télé-	tele-
5	Ancient Greek	τῆλε	far off, afar, far away
6	Latin	commūnicāre	—
7	Latin	commūnis	common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together
8	Old Latin	com(m)oinis	—
9	Proto-Italic	kommoinis	common
10	Proto-Indo-European	ḱom-moy-ni-	held in common
11	Proto-Indo-European	ḱóm	beside, near, by, with
12	Proto-Indo-European	ḱe	Deictic particle, here; Post-positional...
13	Middle English	kyt	—
14	German	kitt	putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes
15	Old High German	kuti	—
16	Proto-West Germanic	kwidu	gum, resin
17	Proto-Germanic	kweduz	resin
18	Proto-Indo-European	gʷet-	resin, gum; to say, speak

via Italian telefono

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Italian	telefono	telephone, phone; first-person singular present...
2	Italian	-fono	-phone
3	Ancient Greek	-φωνος	sounding
4	Ancient Greek	-ός	Forms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root
5	Proto-Hellenic	*-os	—
6	Proto-Indo-European	-ós	Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “telefonare”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European gʷet- →Every word from Proto-Germanic kweduz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic kwidu →