tee

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiː/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: T, te, tea, ti

Etymology 1

• From Middle English , from Old English te, from Latin te (the name of the letter T).
• (computing): By analogy with a T-shaped pipe that sends fluids in two directions.

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.
   • 1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:

     The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

   • 1985, Stephen King, Paranoid: A Chant:

     They have writing samples and examine the back loops of pees and the crosses of tees.

   • 2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5

     ETA as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".

2. Something shaped like the letter T.

   Hyponyms: tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed

   angles and tees

4. (clothing) T-shirt.

   Alternative form: T

   Brendan pulled a black pocket tee over his head.

5. (computing) The process of redirecting output to multiple destinations.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)

1. (computing) To redirect output to multiple destinations.
   • 1997, Robin Burk, David B. Horvath, UNIX Unleashed, page 615:

     […] teeing via multiple redirects (ls > file1 > file2) […]

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Etymology 2

First attested in the 17th century as teaz, later reanalyzed as a plural. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
2. (sports) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is kicked or hit.
   • 2019 November 3, Liam de Carme, “Boks, you beauties”, in Sunday Times‎:

     Pollard, who went into the semifinals with an unsatisfactory 63% return from the kicking tee, turned it around splendidly against Wales and he continued that form despite missing his first attempt in the final.

3. (curling) The target area of a curling rink
4. The mark at which players aim in quoits.

Derived terms

• tee ball
• teebox
• tee off
• tee on
• tee up

Translations

Verb

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)

1. (golf) To place a ball on a tee
   • 1909, Walter J. Travis, Practical Golf‎:

     If at any hole a competitor play his first stroke from outside the limits of the teeing-ground, he shall count that stroke, tee a ball, and play his second stroke from within these limits.

Synonyms

• tee up

References

Etymology 3

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries.

References

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “tee”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson , London: John Murray, .

See also

Anagrams

• EET

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch thee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪə̯/

• Audio

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Noun

tee (uncountable)

1. tea

   Kom ons gaan drink tee.

   Let's go drink some tea.

Derived terms

• rooibostee
• teekoppie

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *tee. Cognate with Finnish tie.

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. road, way

Declension

Derived terms

• kiirtee
• maantee
• raudtee
• umbtee
• kruusatee

Etymology 2

From German Tee, ultimately from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. tea

Declension

Derived terms

• liivatee

Etymology 3

Noun

tee (genitive , partitive )

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

Etymology 4

Verb

tee

1. Second-person singular imperative form of tegema.
2. Present connegative form of tegema.

Finnish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Swedish te, itself from Dutch thee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteː/,
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): tee

Noun

tee

1. (uncountable) tea (dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis)

   Mene kauppaan ja osta teetä.

   Go to the supermarket and buy some tea.

2. (uncountable) tea (drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water)

   Synonyms: (dialectal) saikka, tsaikka, tsaikku, tsaiju, tsaju, tsaikka, tsaikku, tsaju, tsaiju (dialectal)

   Haluaisitko teetä?’’

   Would you like some tea?

3. (countable) tea (variety of the tea plant)

   Synonym: teelaatu

   Darjeeling on intialainen tee.

   Darjeeling is a tea from India.

4. (uncountable, by extension) tea (any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants)

   Synonym: juoma

   yrttitee ― herbal tea

   kamomillatee ― camomile tea

   minttutee ― mint tea

5. (countable) tea, cup of tea (cup of any one of these drinks)

   Synonyms: teekupillinen, kuppi teetä

Usage notes

As the plural forms are quite rarely used and as they, with the exception of nominative, look the same as the plural forms of tie (“road”), it may be advisable to substitute a more precise synonym for the word tee in those cases.

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “tee”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
• tee on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fi

Etymology 2

From Latin tē.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteː/,
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): tee

Noun

tee

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

Declension

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːˣ/,
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): tee

Verb

tee

1. inflection of tehdä:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present imperative connegative

Anagrams

• eet

French

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

tee m (plural tees)

1. (sports) tee

Further reading

• “tee”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Ingrian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *tee, from Proto-Finno-Permic *teje. Cognates include Finnish tie and Estonian tee.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/,
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: tee

Noun

tee

1. street
   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:

     Harkkaisin teen päälle, jää puuttui jalan alle.

     I stepped onto the street, ice got under my feet.

2. way, path
   • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:

     Tiijussimma teen ja läksimmä.

     We recognised the way and we went.

Declension

Synonyms

• (street): uulitsa, katu

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/,
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: tee

Verb

tee

1. inflection of tehä:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. second-person singular imperative connegative

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 66
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 583

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ.

Noun

têe f

1. toe

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: teen (plural reanalysed as singular)
• Limburgish: tieën (plural reanalysed as singular)

Further reading

• “tee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “tee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Nafaanra

Noun

tee

1. termite mound

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English tee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: ti

Noun

tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-er, definite plural tee-ene)

1. (golf) tee
2. (golf) peg

References

• “tee” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English tee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: ti

Noun

tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-ar, definite plural tee-ane)

1. (golf) tee
2. (golf) peg

References

• “tee” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ete

Old Irish

Adjective

teë

1. Alternative spelling of té

Mutation

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

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Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

Borrowed from English tee.

Noun

tee c or n

1. (golf) tee, teeing ground (area from which the first shot on a hole is hit)

   Synonym: utslagsplats

2. (curling) tee (center of a curling target)

Usage notes

Uninflected.

See also

• peg
• slå ut (“tee off”)
• utslag (“tee shot”)

References

• tee in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tee in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tee in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Termanu

Etymology

Akin to Tetum to'o.

Verb

tee

1. to come, to arrive

Ternate

Etymology

Likely from Malay teh, from Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

tee

1. tea

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tetum

Etymology

See the Tetum noun teen.

Verb

tee

1. to defecate, to excrete

Tiri

Noun

tee

1. tea

References

• Midori Osumi, Tinrin Grammar

Võro

Noun

tee (genitive , partitive )

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

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/,
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: tee

Noun

tee

1. way, road

Inflection

References

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowing from Dutch thee, from Malay teh, from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teː/

Noun

tee c (no plural)

1. tea

Further reading

• “tee”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011