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    From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, at a distance, far off, far away, far from).

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    tele-

    1. over a distance
      telegram
      telerobot
    2. television
      telecast
      telefantasy
      telethon
    3. telegraph
      telepost
      teletape
      teletypewriter
    4. telephone
      telecheck
      telesales
    5. teleport
      telebooth
    6. telecommunication
      telemarketing

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    Basque

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    Ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

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    • IPA(key): /tele/, [t̪e̞.le̞]

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    tele-

    1. tele- (over a distance)
    2. tele- (relating to television)

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    Catalan

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    From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

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    tele-

    1. tele-

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    Czech

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    Derived from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

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    tele-

    1. tele-

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    • tele-”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
    • tele- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017

    Dutch

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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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    tele-

    1. tele-

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    Esperanto

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    Ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

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    tele-

    1. tele-

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    Finnish

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    Internationalism (see English tele-), ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

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    • IPA(key): /ˈtele-/, [ˈt̪e̞le̞-]

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    tele-

    1. tele-

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    Galician

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    tele-

    1. tele- (1 and 2)

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    Hungarian

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    • IPA(key): [ˈtɛlɛ]
    • Hyphenation: te‧le

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    From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, at a distance, far off, far away, far from).[1]

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    tele-

    1. tele-
      ház (house)teleház (telecenter)
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    From the adverb tele (full).

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    tele-

    1. (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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    1. ^ 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

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    tele-

    1. tele- (all senses)

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    Malay

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    Borrowed from English tele- or Dutch tele-.

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    • (English-based) IPA(key): [tɛ.li-]
    • (Baku) IPA(key): [te.le-]
    • Hyphenation: te‧le-

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    tele- (Jawi spelling تيليـ)

    1. (no longer productive) tele-
      telefontelephone
      telekomunikasitelecommunication
      televisyentelevision

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    Norwegian Bokmål

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    From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

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    tele-

    1. tele-

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    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

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    tele-

    1. tele-

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    Polish

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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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    • IPA(key): /tɛ.lɛ/
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    • Rhymes: -ɛlɛ
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    tele-

    1. tele- (over a distance)
    2. tele- (relating to television)

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    • tele- in Polish dictionaries at PWN

    Portuguese

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    Internationalism (see English tele-), ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

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    tele-

    1. tele- (over a distance)

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    Serbo-Croatian

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    tele- (Cyrillic spelling теле-)

    1. tele-

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    Spanish

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    • IPA(key): /tele/ [t̪e.le]
    • Syllabification: te‧le-

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    tele-

    1. tele- (1 and 2)

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    Swedish

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    tele-

    1. tele-; bridging large distances (e.g. telepati, telefon, telepresens)
    2. tele-; pertaining to telecommunications (e.g. televerk, telebolag, teleingenjör)

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