télévision

See also: television, televisión, and télévîsion

French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From télé- (“far off”) +‎ vision (“seeing”), first used by Constantin Perskyi in a paper ("Télévision au moyen de l’électricité") read to the International Electricity Congress at the International World Fair in Paris on August 25, 1900.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te.le.vi.zjɔ̃/

• audio:

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Noun

télévision f (plural télévisions)

1. television

Synonyms

• télé

Descendants

Descendants

• → English: television
  • → Malay: televisyen

• → Dutch: televisie
  • → Indonesian: televisi

Further reading

• “télévision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.