🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

antenne

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ɑ̃.tɛn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Antenna/ænˈtɛn.ə/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #3450 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"L'antenne capte les signaux de télévision."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A device used to transmit or receive radio waves.

    "The satellite dish acts as an antenna, capturing signals from space."
  2. 2

    A sensory appendage found in many animals, particularly insects, used for sensing the environment.

    "The butterfly's antennae are sensitive to changes in air currents."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'antenna' or 'antemna', originally referring to a sailyard on a Roman ship. By the 18th century, the term was adopted by naturalists to describe the feelers of insects, and later evolved in the early 20th century with the advent of radio technology to denote a metallic apparatus for transmitting or receiving electromagnetic waves.

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