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

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛː]
• IPA^(key): /tɛː/

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Noun

té n

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

Pronoun

1. singular feminine genitive/dative/locative of ten

Further reading

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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 the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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• téighe (superseded)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.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “té”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “té”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “té”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Italian

Noun

té m (uncountable)

1. Misspelling of tè.

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Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Perhaps from été?”)

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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Muong

Etymology

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

Verb

té

1. to give birth to
2. to birth

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲeː/

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage)

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

   Synonym: 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 the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “té, te”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Portuguese

Preposition

té

1. Nonstandard form of até.

Adverb

1. Nonstandard form of até.

Interjection

té

1. Nonstandard form of até.

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Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Noun

té m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) tea

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Compare Irish té.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃʰeː/

Noun

té f

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Derived terms

• leth-té (“half-measure”)
• seann-té (“old woman”)
• té bheag (“small whisky, nip”)
• té bhristeach
• té eile (“another (female) one; (with def. art.) herself, her indoors”)
• té mhór (“a large whisky”)
• té-eigineach, té-eigin (“some woman”)

 

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “té”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

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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

Derived terms

• cucharada de té
• tecito (diminutive)

 

Descendants

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

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˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tɛ˦˥]

Verb

té

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

See also

• ngã
• rơi
• rớt
• xuống