té

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Asturian[edit]

Noun[edit]

té m (plural tés)

  1. tea

Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

té

  1. inflection of tenir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of tindre:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛː]
  • Audio(file)

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

té n (indeclinable)

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

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

té

  1. singular feminine genitive/dative/locative of ten

Further reading[edit]

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

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

té m (plural tés)

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

Further reading[edit]

Galician[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

té m (plural tés)

  1. tea
    Tomar o té é un costume moi inglés que os británicos trouxeron dende a India.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. the shrub Camellia sinsensis

Related terms[edit]

Gokana[edit]

Noun[edit]

té

  1. tree
  2. handle

References[edit]

Hokkien[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of té – see 貯 (“to put (food) in a container; to ladle out”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 貯).

Hungarian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

té

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

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative té ték
accusative tét téket
dative tének téknek
instrumental tével tékkel
causal-final téért tékért
translative tévé tékké
terminative téig tékig
essive-formal téként tékként
essive-modal — —
inessive tében tékben
superessive tén téken
adessive ténél téknél
illative tébe tékbe
sublative tére tékre
allative téhez tékhez
elative téből tékből
delative téről tékről
ablative tétől téktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		téé téké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		tééi tékéi
Possessive forms of té
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tém téim
2nd person sing. téd téid
3rd person sing. téje téi
1st person plural ténk téink
2nd person plural tétek téitek
3rd person plural téjük téik

See also[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • té in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

té n (genitive singular tés, nominative plural té)

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

Declension[edit]

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[edit]

té n

  1. used in set phrases

Derived terms[edit]

Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms[edit]

Verb[edit]

té

  1. present subjunctive analytic of téigh

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Irish intí; synchronically analyzable as t- (marker of t-prothesis) + é (“him”).

Pronoun[edit]

té

  1. Only used in an té

Etymology 3[edit]

Noun[edit]

té

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

See also[edit]

Mutation[edit]

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.

Further reading[edit]

Italian[edit]

Noun[edit]

té

  1. Misspelling of tè.

Louisiana Creole[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Probably inherited from French "étais".”)

Pronunciation[edit]

Particle[edit]

té

  1. anterior past tense marker
    To té paʼlé gra. / To te pale gra. ― You spoke with an accent. (literally, “You had spoken thick.”)
    Si mo té koné ça.... ― If I had known that....
  2. (with stative verbs) simple past tense marker
    No té gin in nòt fiy. ― We had another girl.
  3. (copulative, past tense) was
    Li té brav. ― He was brave.

Usage notes[edit]

  • Followed by the long form of two-stem verbs.

Derived terms[edit]

  • (prevocalic) t'

Muong[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Vietic *tɛh; cognate with Vietnamese đẻ.

Verb[edit]

té

  1. (Mường Bi) to give birth to
  2. (Mường Bi) to birth

Old Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Alternative forms[edit]

Adjective[edit]

té

  1. hot, warm (of temperature)
    Synonym: brothach
  2. lustful, wanton
  3. warm, comfortable, sheltered (of places)
  4. warm, fervent (of emotions)
  5. fierce, keen (of fights, weapons)
Declension[edit]

This adjective and éola (“wise, knowledgeable”) are the only two irregularly inflecting adjectives in the entire language, when irregular comparatives and superlatives are discounted. té seems to have a unique nt-stem declension, with only two forms attested that fit such a paradigm.

Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • Irish: te
  • Manx: çheh
  • Scottish Gaelic: teth

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

·té

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of téit

Mutation[edit]

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[edit]

Piedmontese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

té m

  1. tea

Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Preposition[edit]

té

  1. (Brazil) Nonstandard form of até.

Adverb[edit]

té (not comparable)

  1. (Brazil) Nonstandard form of até.

Interjection[edit]

té

  1. (Brazil) Nonstandard form of até.

Romagnol[edit]

Noun[edit]

té m or f (invariable)

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

See also[edit]

Romansch[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

té m

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) tea

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

té f

  1. Superseded spelling of tè.

Spanish[edit]

Té

Etymology[edit]

Either directly from Hokkien 茶 (tê) in the Philippines or through Dutch thee.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

té m (plural tés)

  1. tea

Derived terms[edit]

tecito (diminutive)

Descendants[edit]

  • → Asturian: té
  • → Basque: te
  • → Catalan: te
  • → Galician: té
  • → Navajo: dééh
  • → Occitan: tè

See also[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Tetum[edit]

Noun[edit]

té

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

Vietnamese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

té

  1. (chiefly Southern Vietnam, intransitive) to trip
  2. (chiefly Southern Vietnam, intransitive) to fall, to fall over
  3. to sprinkle
    té nước ― to sprinkle water

See also[edit]

Derived terms

Anagrams[edit]

Walloon[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

té m (plural tés)

  1. tea

Wolof[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Conjunction[edit]

té

  1. and (used between adjectives)

See also[edit]

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