tele-

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Prefix

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

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

Pronunciation

Prefix

tele-

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

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Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

Pronunciation

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele-

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Czech

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

Pronunciation

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele-

Derived terms

Further reading

  • tele-”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 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

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele-

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Esperanto

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

Pronunciation

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele-

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Finnish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele-

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Galician

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele- (1 and 2)

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • 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

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)
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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)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele-

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle).

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele-

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Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Prefix

tele-

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

Derived terms

Further reading

  • tele- in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele- (over a distance)

Derived terms

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Prefix

tele- (Cyrillic spelling теле-)

  1. tele-

Derived terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tele/
  • Syllabification: te‧le-

Prefix

tele-

  1. tele- (1 and 2)

Derived terms

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)

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