tele
English
Etymology 1
Clipping of television.
Pronunciation
Noun
tele (countable and uncountable, plural teles)
- (rare) Alternative spelling of telly (“television”)
- 1950, Billboard, volume 62, number 9:
- All three tele skeins are pitching furiously to snag the super Easter Day tele show to be bankrolled by Frigidaire, […]
- 2019, Helen Thomas, Murder on Easey Street: Melbourne’s Most Notorious Cold Case:
- They were up late, talking and watching television. Peter will never forget what happened just after they had gone to bed. 'It's like it was yesterday. We'd just been watching tele and went to bed at about 2.30 am. […]
Etymology 2
Noun
tele (uncountable)
- According to Jacob L. Moreno, a mutual connection or rapport between people that is not a mere one-way process like empathy or transference.
Anagrams
Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *telę.
Pronunciation
Noun
tele n (related adjective telecí)
- calf (young cow or bull)
Declension
Related terms
See also
Further reading
- tele in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- tele in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- tele in Internetová jazyková příručka
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
tele
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Short for teleobjektiivi.
Pronunciation
Noun
tele (colloquial)
- (photographing) telephoto lens
Declension
| Inflection of tele (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | tele | telet | ||
| genitive | telen | telejen | ||
| partitive | teleä | telejä | ||
| illative | teleen | teleihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | tele | telet | ||
| accusative | nom. | tele | telet | |
| gen. | telen | |||
| genitive | telen | telejen teleinrare | ||
| partitive | teleä | telejä | ||
| inessive | telessä | teleissä | ||
| elative | telestä | teleistä | ||
| illative | teleen | teleihin | ||
| adessive | telellä | teleillä | ||
| ablative | teleltä | teleiltä | ||
| allative | telelle | teleille | ||
| essive | telenä | teleinä | ||
| translative | teleksi | teleiksi | ||
| abessive | telettä | teleittä | ||
| instructive | — | telein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tele”, 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 2023-07-03
Anagrams
Friulian
Etymology
Noun
tele f (plural telis)
Derived terms
See also
Galician
Etymology
Clipping of televisión.
Noun
tele f (plural teles)
- (colloquial) TV, telly
Synonyms
- (collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television): televisión
- (device for receiving television signals): televisor, televisión
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Uralic *täwde. Cognates include Finnish täysi, Estonian täis.
Adverb
tele (not comparable)
Usage notes
This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with tele-, occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni (“they could have seen it”, from megnéz). For verbs with this prefix, see tele-; for an overview, Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes.
Derived terms
Adjective
tele (not comparable)
Etymology 2
Ellipsis of teleobjektív.
Noun
tele (plural telék)
- (photography, slang) telephoto lens (lens which produces a magnified view of distant objects)
- Synonym: teleobjektív
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | tele | telék |
| accusative | telét | teléket |
| dative | telének | teléknek |
| instrumental | telével | telékkel |
| causal-final | teléért | telékért |
| translative | telévé | telékké |
| terminative | teléig | telékig |
| essive-formal | teleként | telékként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | telében | telékben |
| superessive | telén | teléken |
| adessive | telénél | teléknél |
| illative | telébe | telékbe |
| sublative | telére | telékre |
| allative | teléhez | telékhez |
| elative | teléből | telékből |
| delative | teléről | telékről |
| ablative | telétől | teléktől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
teléé | teléké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
telééi | telékéi |
| Possessive forms of tele | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | telém | teléim |
| 2nd person sing. | teléd | teléid |
| 3rd person sing. | teléje | teléi |
| 1st person plural | telénk | teléink |
| 2nd person plural | telétek | teléitek |
| 3rd person plural | teléjük | teléik |
Etymology 3
tél (“winter”) + -e (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)
Noun
tele
- third-person singular single-possession possessive of tél
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | tele | — |
| accusative | telét | — |
| dative | telének | — |
| instrumental | telével | — |
| causal-final | teléért | — |
| translative | telévé | — |
| terminative | teléig | — |
| essive-formal | teleként | — |
| essive-modal | teléül | — |
| inessive | telében | — |
| superessive | telén | — |
| adessive | telénél | — |
| illative | telébe | — |
| sublative | telére | — |
| allative | teléhez | — |
| elative | teléből | — |
| delative | teléről | — |
| ablative | telétől | — |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
teléé | — |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
telééi | — |
See also
- tele- (prefix)
Further reading
- (full): tele 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
Italian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
tele f
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Noun
tele f pl
Anagrams
Latvian
Pronunciation
Noun
tele f (5th declension)
- female calf, immature cow, heifer
- pērnā tele ― the heifer from last year
- šķirnes tele ― a heifer of good breed
- grūsna tele ― pregnant heifer
- te Tibils visu vasaru turēja savus lopus: divas teles, abas slaucamās govis, aitas un zirgus ― here Tibils kept his animals all summer: the two heifers, both dairy cows, the sheep and the horses
- nopētīju savu ganāmpulki, vai kāda no govīm, īpaši telēm, netaisās laisties blēņās uz zirņu lauku ― he kept an eye on his herd, in case one of the cows, especially the heifers, wanted to play any tricks on the pea fields
Declension
See also
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Noun
tele m (definite singular telen, indefinite plural teler, definite plural telene)
Verb
tele (present tense teler, past tense tela or telet, past participle tela or telet)
- (intransitive, about the ground) to freeze
Etymology 2
Noun
tele m (definite singular telen, indefinite plural teler, definite plural telene)
- a person from Telemark
- Synonyms: telemarking, teledøl
References
Anagrams
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse þeli, þili. The verb is derived from the noun. Probably related to Swedish tjäle.
Pronunciation
Noun
tele m (definite singular telen, indefinite plural telar, definite plural telane)
Verb
tele (present tense telar, past tense tela, past participle tela, passive infinitive telast, present participle telande, imperative tele/tel)
- (intransitive, about the ground or fingers) to freeze
Alternative forms
- tela (a- and split infinitives)
Etymology 2
Noun
tele m (definite singular telen, indefinite plural teler or telar, definite plural telene or telane)
- a person from Telemark
- Synonym: telemarking
References
- “tele” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
Pali
Alternative forms
Noun
tele
Portuguese
Verb
tele
- inflection of telar:
Samoan
Adjective
tele
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *telę.
Pronunciation
Noun
tèle n (Cyrillic spelling тѐле)
Declension
This word has no plural, but the collective noun tȅlād is used instead.
See also
Slovak
Pronunciation
Noun
tele
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *telę.
Pronunciation
Noun
téle n
Inflection
| Declension of tele (neuter, t-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nom. sing. | tele | ||
| gen. sing. | teleta | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | tele | teleti | teleta |
| accusative | tele | teleti | teleta |
| genitive | teleta | telet | telet |
| dative | teletu | teletoma | teletom |
| locative | teletu | teletih | teletih |
| instrumental | teletom | teletoma | teleti |
Further reading
- “tele”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Spanish
Etymology
Clipping of televisión.
Pronunciation
Noun
tele f (plural teles)
- television
- Synonyms: televisión, televisor
Further reading
- “tele”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Adjective
tele (invariable)
Western Maninkakan
Noun
tele
Yosondúa Mixtec
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
tele
References
- Beaty de Farris, Kathryn, et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46) (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 78