tele-
English
Etymology
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From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “at a distance, far off, far away, far from”).
Prefix
tele-
- over a distance
- telephone
- television
- telecast
- telefantasy
- telethon
- telegraph
- telephone
- telecheck
- telesales
- teleport
- telebooth
Derived terms
Translations
over a distance
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relating to television
References
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).
Prefix
tele-
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tele-” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “tele-”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “tele-” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “tele-” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).
Pronunciation
Prefix
tele-
Derived terms
Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
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Pronunciation
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Prefix
tele-
Derived terms
Finnish
Prefix
tele-
Synonyms
Derived terms
Anagrams
Galician
Prefix
tele-
- tele- (1 and 2)
Derived terms
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “at a distance, far off, far away, far from”).[1]
Prefix
tele-
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From the adverb tele (“full”).
Prefix
tele-
- (verbal prefix) to the brim, fully, over an entire extent
- pakol (“to pack”) → telepakol (“to fill up something fully with something”)
- firkál (“to scribble”) → telefirkál (“to scribble all over, to fill the available space completely with scribble”)
Derived terms
See also
References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Italian
Prefix
tele-
- tele- (all senses)
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)
Prefix
tele-
Derived terms
References
- “tele-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)
Prefix
tele-
Derived terms
References
- “tele-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Prefix
tele-
- tele- (over a distance)
Serbo-Croatian
Prefix
tele- (Cyrillic spelling теле-)
Derived terms
Spanish
Pronunciation
Prefix
tele-
- tele- (1 and 2)
Derived terms
Swedish
Prefix
tele-
- tele-; bridging large distances (e.g. telepati, telefon, telepresens)
- tele-; pertaining to telecommunications (e.g. televerk, telebolag, teleingenjör)
Usage notes
- In 1953 the Swedish telegraph and telephone administration, previously known as telegrafverket, was renamed televerket.
Derived terms
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