Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

batavophone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: batavo-phone
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Dutch-speaking.

noun

A Dutch speaker; a person who speaks the Dutch language.

Example Sentences

"In addition, the translations, especially from Dutch, are not always felicitous, so that the Batavophone reader, to obtain comprehension, is often obliged to refer in his mind's eye to his and the authors' native words."
"My thesis... got a lot of praise from my advisor, who even wanted to see it published in the Batavophone Jesuits' scholarly quarterly."

Etymology

From Batavo- + -phone.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: Batavo
Suffix: phone

Inflected Forms

Batavophones (plural)

Synonyms

Dutchophone Netherlandophone

Questions

What does batavophone mean?: Dutch-speaking.
Where does batavophone come from?: From Batavo- + -phone.

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