tele-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tele"

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɛl.ɪ/, /ˈtɛl.ə/
  • (file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɛl.ə/

Prefix

tele-

  1. over a distance
    telephone
  2. television
    telecast
    telefantasy
    telethon
  3. telegraph
    telepost
    teletape
  4. telephone
    telecheck
    telesales
  5. teleport
    telebooth

Derived terms

English terms prefixed with tele-

Translations

References

Anagrams

Basque

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tele/, [t̪e̞.le̞]

Prefix

tele-

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

Derived terms

Basque terms prefixed with tele-

Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

Pronunciation

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele-

Derived terms

Catalan terms prefixed with tele-

Further reading

Czech

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tɛlɛ ]

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele-

Derived terms

Czech terms prefixed with tele-

Further reading

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

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele-

Derived terms

Dutch terms prefixed with tele-

Esperanto

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tele]

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele-

Derived terms

Esperanto terms prefixed with tele-

Finnish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtele-/, [ˈt̪e̞le̞-]

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele-

Synonyms

Derived terms

Finnish terms prefixed with tele-

Further reading

Anagrams

Galician

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele- (1 and 2)

Derived terms

From

Galician terms prefixed with tele-

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele-
    ház (“house”) → teleház (“telecenter”)
Derived terms
Hungarian nouns prefixed with tele-

Etymology 2

From the adverb tele (“full”).

Prefix

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”)
Derived terms
Hungarian verbs prefixed with tele-

See also

  • Appendix:Hungarian prefixes
  • Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes

References

  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

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele- (all senses)

Derived terms

Italian terms prefixed with tele-

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele-

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål terms prefixed with tele-

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele-

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk terms prefixed with tele-

References

Anagrams

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.lɛ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛlɛ
  • Syllabification: te‧le

Prefix

tele-

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

Derived terms

Polish terms prefixed with tele-

Further reading

  • tele- in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌtɛ.le/, /te.le/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌtɛ.lɛ/, /tɨ.lɨ/

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele- (over a distance)

Derived terms

Portuguese terms prefixed with tele-

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Prefix

tele- (Cyrillic spelling теле-)

  1. tele-

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian terms prefixed with tele-

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele- (1 and 2)

Derived terms

Spanish terms prefixed with tele-

Further reading

Swedish

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele-; bridging large distances (e.g. telepati, telefon, telepresens)
  2. 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

Swedish terms prefixed with tele-
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