té

See also: Appendix:Variations of "te"

Asturian

Noun

té m (plural tés)

1. tea

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te/
• Homophone: te
• Rhymes: -e

Verb

té

1. third-person singular present indicative form of tenir
2. second-person singular imperative form of tenir

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛː/

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Noun

té n

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.
2. (archaic) tea

Pronoun

té

1. singular feminine genitive and dative and locative of ten

Further reading

• té in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• té in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te/

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• Homophones: thé, tes

Noun

té m (plural tés)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

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Galician

Pronunciation

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Noun

té m (plural tés)

1. tea
2. the shrub Camellia sinsensis

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰjɛː/

  Rhymes: -ɛː

Noun

té n (genitive singular tés, nominative plural té)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

Declension

declension of té

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	té	téið	té	téin
accusative	té	téið	té	téin
dative	téi	téinu	téum	téunum
genitive	tés	tésins	téa	téanna

Noun

té n

1. used in set phrases

Derived terms

• láta í té

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲeː/

Etymology 1

See etymology on the main entry.

Alternative forms

• téighe (superseded)

Verb

té

1. present subjunctive analytic of téigh

Etymology 2

From é (“he, him”) with t-prothesis.

Pronoun

té

1. Only used in an té

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
té	thé	dté
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Italian

Noun

té m (invariable)

1. Misspelling of tè.

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Louisiana Creole French

Particle

té

1. past tense marker

   To té paʼlé gra. / To te pale gra.

   You spoke with an accent. (literally: "You had spoken thick.")

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲeː/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *teɸents, from the present participle of Proto-Indo-European *tep- (“to be warm”) (compare Latin tepēns).

Alternative forms

• tee

Adjective

té

1. (of temperature): hot, warm

   Synonyms: brothach

2. lustful, wanton
3. (of places): warm, comfortable, sheltered
4. (of emotions): warm, fervent
5. (of fights, weapons): fierce, keen

Declension

• Nominative plural: téït

Related terms

• tesbach
• tess

Descendants

• Irish: te
• Manx: çheh
• Scottish Gaelic: teth

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

·té

1. third-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of téit

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
té	thé	té pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• “té, te” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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Portuguese

Preposition

té

1. Nonstandard form of até.

Adverb

té (not comparable)

1. Nonstandard form of até.

Interjection

té

1. Nonstandard form of até.

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) te
• (Puter, Vallader) tè

Noun

té m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) tea

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Spanish

Té

Etymology

From Dutch thee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈte/, [ˈt̪e]
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• Homophone: te
• Rhymes: -e

Noun

té m (plural tés)

1. tea

See also

• infusión

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Tetum

Noun

té

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tɛ˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tɛ˨˩˦]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tɛ˦˥]

Verb

té

1. (intransitive) to trip
2. (intransitive) to fall, to fall over

Related terms

• rớt, rơi, xuống, ngã