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Teutonophone en · ADJ

Etymology

From Teutono- + -phone.

Meanings

  1. German-speaking.
    • Word Guy, as his Teutonophone alter ego, Wortkerl, must note: "Also Herr James, wie heißt denn ihr Buch? 2001 October 8, bill walsh, “? on Good Times...Good Times.....(repeat)”, in alt.tv.newsradio (Usenet):
    • Only amusement that the Teutonophone tech press, with a small number of potential readers, as compared to English, has such a rich selection of new books on the subject and of a very much higher tech standard. 2007 August 6, RapidRonnie, “Very interesting, these horrible Germans....”, in rec.audio.opinion (Usenet):
    • Bruno and Ernst from the international Teutonophone (German, Austrian and Swiss) expedition arrived during breakfast. 1994, Victor Saunders, No Place to Fall: Superalpinism in the High Himalaya, Vertebrate Publishing, published 2013, →ISBN:
    • This chorus of signs rises to a clamor around Side, a favorite Teutonophone destination (over 80 percent of the tourists who visit this region are German, Austrian, or Swiss). 1992, “The Central Mediterranean Coast”, in Alan Tucker, editor, The Berlitz Travellers Guide to Turkey 1992, New York, N.Y.: Berlitz Publishing Company, Inc.; Oxford: Berlitz Publishing Company Ltd., →ISBN, page 404:
    • The notion of a supposed Orientalisation of Rome has tended to dominate this aspect of the discussion, especially among Teutonophone scholars. 2017, Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado, Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, “[[Elagabal’s Idyll] Critical review of the academic literature to date] Second stage of the discussion, 1902-1962”, in Varian Studies Volume Two: Elagabal, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 136:
    • Johann Kirste (1851–1920) of Graz and Vienna, Indo-Europeanist and Indo-Iranianist, is doubtless the least renowned of all those Teutonophone Indologists whose works have been reissued in the Glasenapp Foundation’s series of Kleine Schriften. 1995, J. C. Wright, “Johann Otto Ferdinand Kirste: Kleine Schriften. Hrsg. von Walter Slaje. (Glasenapp-Stiftung, Bd. 33.) [xv], 374 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993. DM 98.”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume LVIII, →ISSN, page 173, column 1:

Forms

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most Teutonophone Degree=Sup lexicographic
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more Teutonophone Degree=Cmp lexicographic
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Synonyms

Germanophone

Teutonophone en · NOUN

Etymology

From Teutono- + -phone.

Meanings

  1. A speaker of the German language.
    • Gooch, following Acton, was concerned to show the new German professionalisation of history in the nineteenth century: clearly, only Teutonophones might apply. 1997, Owen Dudley Edwards, “Robertsonian Romanticism and realism”, in Stewart J. Brown, editor, William Robertson and the Expansion of Empire, Cambridge University Press, published 2008, →ISBN, section IV, page 117:
    • Bruno and Ernst from the international Teutonophone (German, Austrian and Swiss) expedition arrived during breakfast. […] The sight of the Teutonophones gave Steve one of his brilliant ideas: Bruno and Ernst could use our tents here, in exchange we would sleep at their camp on the way up to the Makalu La, kick-off point for an attempt on either Kangchungtse to the north, or the main challenge of the Makalu traverse to the south. 1994, Victor Saunders, No Place to Fall: Superalpinism in the High Himalaya, Vertebrate Publishing, published 2013, →ISBN:
    • The Maryland legislature authorized the printing and distribution of two thousand copies of the Constitution, as well as three hundred copies of a German translation for Teutonophones. 2008, Bill Kauffman, Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Martin Luther, ISI Books, →ISBN:
    • (The name "Gopal Balakrishnan" somehow leads me to doubt that this biographer is any more a native Teutonophone than I am....) 2001 July 9, John H. McCloskey, “A Little E-Garden of "Rule Of Law" (I)”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet):
    • (( An interesting case. Here in the Eastern Massachusetts of John Winthrop and Cotton Mather and Calvin Coolidge and even Mitt Romney one vaguely supposes that all Teutonophones give absolutely everthing^([sic]) the patented Leo Strauss Treatment, or perhaps the discredited Adolf Hitler Treatment, automatically -- crush, Crumble, CHOMP! -- but here's a headline where they have have^([sic]) to resort to lowly English even to say what it is they want done. And yet at the same time, a Wingnut City goodie like _aufzufordern alle Bürger zum Schulterschluß im Kampf gegen den Rechtsextremismus_ can hardly be translated at all without non-Teutons and non-Straussians supposin' that you're only just makin' fun of 'em somehow. )) 2006 May 23, JHM, “VERFASSUNGSSCHUTZBERICHT!”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

Forms

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Teutophone alternative lexicographic
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teutonophone alternative lexicographic
Teutonophones Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

Germanophone