tele-
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “at a distance, far off, far away, far from”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɛl.ɪ/, /ˈtɛl.ə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɛl.ə/
Prefix edit
tele-
- over a distance
- telephone
- television
- telecast
- telefantasy
- telethon
- telegraph
- telepost
- teletape
- telephone
- telecheck
- telesales
- teleport
- telebooth
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Basque edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).
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tele-
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Catalan edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).
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tele-
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Further reading edit
- “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 edit
Etymology edit
Derived from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).
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tele-
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Dutch edit
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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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Audio (file)
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tele-
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Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).
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tele-
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Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Internationalism (see English tele-), ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).
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tele-
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Further reading edit
- “tele-”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
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Galician edit
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tele-
- tele- (1 and 2)
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Hungarian edit
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Etymology 1 edit
From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “at a distance, far off, far away, far from”).[1]
Prefix edit
tele-
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Etymology 2 edit
From the adverb tele (“full”).
Prefix edit
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”)
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See also edit
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- ^ 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
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tele-
- tele- (all senses)
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).
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tele-
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- “tele-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).
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tele-
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- “tele-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Polish edit
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tele-
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- tele- in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Internationalism (see English tele-), ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).
Pronunciation edit
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tele-
- tele- (over a distance)
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Further reading edit
- “tele-” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Serbo-Croatian edit
Prefix edit
tele- (Cyrillic spelling теле-)
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Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Prefix edit
tele-
- tele- (1 and 2)
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Further reading edit
- “tele-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
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tele-
- tele-; bridging large distances (e.g. telepati, telefon, telepresens)
- tele-; pertaining to telecommunications (e.g. televerk, telebolag, teleingenjör)
Usage notes edit
- In 1953 the Swedish telegraph and telephone administration, previously known as telegrafverket, was renamed televerket.