télégraphe

== French == === Etymology === From télé- +‎ -graphe, coined by André François Miot de Mélito in 1792 as a replacement for Claude Chappe's tachygraphe (literally “fast writer”), a communication system based on semaphores. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /te.le.ɡʁaf/ Rhymes: -af Homophone: télégraphes === Noun === télégraphe m (plural télégraphes) telegraph ==== Descendants ==== → Ottoman Turkish: تلغراف (telgraf)Turkish: telgraf → Persian: تلگراف (telegrâf) === Further reading === “télégraphe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012