té

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Asturian

Noun

té m (plural tés)

  1. tea

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

té

  1. inflection of tenir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of tindre:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Czech

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Noun

té n (indeclinable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.
  2. (archaic) tea

Etymology 2

Pronoun

té

  1. singular feminine genitive/dative/locative of ten

Further reading

  • té in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • té in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Pronunciation

Noun

té m (plural tés)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Further reading

Galician

Pronunciation

Noun

té m (plural tés)

  1. tea
    Tomar o té é un costume moi inglés que os británicos trouxeron dende a India.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. the shrub Camellia sinsensis

Related terms

Gokana

Noun

té

  1. tree
  2. handle

References

Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of té – see 貯 (“to put (food) in a container; to ladle out”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 貯).

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Noun

té

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative té ték
accusative tét téket
dative tének téknek
instrumental tével tékkel
causal-final téért tékért
translative tévé tékké
terminative téig tékig
essive-formal téként tékként
essive-modal — —
inessive tében tékben
superessive tén téken
adessive ténél téknél
illative tébe tékbe
sublative tére tékre
allative téhez tékhez
elative téből tékből
delative téről tékről
ablative tétől téktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		téé téké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		tééi tékéi
Possessive forms of té
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tém téim
2nd person sing. téd téid
3rd person sing. téje téi
1st person plural ténk téink
2nd person plural tétek téitek
3rd person plural téjük téik

See also

Further reading

  • té in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Noun

té n (genitive singular tés, nominative plural té)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Declension

declension of té
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative té téið té téin
accusative té téið té téin
dative téi téinu téum téunum
genitive tés tésins téa téanna

Noun

té n

  1. used in set phrases

Derived terms

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

Verb

té

  1. present subjunctive analytic of téigh

Etymology 2

From Old Irish intí; synchronically analyzable as t- (marker of t-prothesis) + é (“him”).

Pronoun

té

  1. Only used in an té

Etymology 3

Noun

té

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter t.

See also

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
té thé dté
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Italian

Noun

té

  1. Misspelling of tè.

Louisiana Creole

Alternative forms

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Probably inherited from French "étais".”)

Pronunciation

Particle

té

  1. anterior past tense marker
    To té paʼlé gra. / To te pale gra. ― You spoke with an accent. (literally, “You had spoken thick.”)
    Si mo té koné ça.... ― If I had known that....
  2. (with stative verbs) simple past tense marker
    No té gin in nòt fiy. ― We had another girl.
  3. (copulative, past tense) was
    Li té brav. ― He was brave.

Usage notes

  • Followed by the long form of two-stem verbs.

Derived terms

  • (prevocalic) t'

Muong

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *tɛh; cognate with Vietnamese đẻ.

Verb

té

  1. (Mường Bi) to give birth to
  2. (Mường Bi) to birth

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *teɸents, from the present participle of Proto-Indo-European *tep- (“to be warm”) (compare Latin tepēns).

Alternative forms

Adjective

té

  1. hot, warm (of temperature)
    Synonym: brothach
  2. lustful, wanton
  3. warm, comfortable, sheltered (of places)
  4. warm, fervent (of emotions)
  5. fierce, keen (of fights, weapons)
Declension

This adjective and éola (“wise, knowledgeable”) are the only two irregularly inflecting adjectives in the entire language, when irregular comparatives and superlatives are discounted. té seems to have a unique nt-stem declension, with only two forms attested that fit such a paradigm.

Related terms
Descendants
  • Irish: te
  • Manx: çheh
  • Scottish Gaelic: teth

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

·té

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of téit

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
té thé té
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

Noun

té m

  1. tea

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Preposition

té

  1. (Brazil) Nonstandard form of até.

Adverb

té (not comparable)

  1. (Brazil) Nonstandard form of até.

Interjection

té

  1. (Brazil) Nonstandard form of até.

Romagnol

Noun

té m or f (invariable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

See also

Romansch

Alternative forms

Noun

té m

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) tea

Scottish Gaelic

Pronoun

té f

  1. Superseded spelling of tè.

Spanish

Té

Etymology

Either directly from Hokkien 茶 (tê) in the Philippines or through Dutch thee.

Pronunciation

Noun

té m (plural tés)

  1. tea

Derived terms

tecito (diminutive)

Descendants

  • → Asturian: té
  • → Basque: te
  • → Catalan: te
  • → Galician: té
  • → Navajo: dééh
  • → Occitan: tè

See also

Further reading

Tetum

Noun

té

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Verb

té

  1. (chiefly Southern Vietnam, intransitive) to trip
  2. (chiefly Southern Vietnam, intransitive) to fall, to fall over
  3. to sprinkle
    té nước ― to sprinkle water

See also

Derived terms

Anagrams

Walloon

Pronunciation

Noun

té m (plural tés)

  1. tea

Wolof

Pronunciation

Conjunction

té

  1. and (used between adjectives)

See also

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