télévision
French edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
télévision f (plural télévisions)
- television
- Synonym: télé
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Arabic: تِلِفِزْيُون (tilifizyūn)
- → English: television (see there for further descendants)
- → Dutch: televisie (see there for further descendants)
- → German: Fernsehen (calque)
- → Greek: τηλεόραση (tileórasi) (calque)
- → Haitian Creole: televizyon
- → Persian: تِلِویزیون (televizyon)
- → Portuguese: televisão (calque)
- → Russian: телевидение (televidenije) (calque)
- → Kazakh: телевидение (televidenie)
- → Spanish: televisión (calque)
- → Turkish: televizyon
Further reading edit
- “télévision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.