telo

Dutch

Etymology

From Caribbean Javanese telo, from Javanese ꦠꦺꦭ (téla), a variant of ꦏꦠꦺꦭ (katéla), a word for non-native tuberous plants that was borrowed from Portuguese Castela and thus ultimately derives from Latin castellum, making this a doublet of ketella, kasteel, chateau, Castilië, Kessel, and castellum. Cognate to Indonesian ketela.

Noun

telo m (uncountable)

1. (originally Suriname) A snack made of fried cassava.

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from German Tell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: te‧lo

Noun

telo (accusative singular telon, plural teloj, accusative plural telojn)

1. mound

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteloˣ/,
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification^(key): te‧lo

Verb

telo

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

Anagrams

• elot, olet

Italian

Etymology 1

Gender shift from tela.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.lo/
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: té‧lo

Noun

telo m (plural teli)

1. sheet, cloth, length of cloth

Related terms

Further reading

• télo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin tēlum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɛlo
• Hyphenation: tè‧lo

Noun

telo m (plural teli)

1. (historical) a hand-thrown weapon, especially an arrow, a dart or a javelin
2. (by extension, poetic, uncommon) weapon

   Synonym: arma

Further reading

• tèlo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• Leto

Latin

Noun

tēlō

1. dative singular and ablative singular of tēlum

References

• telo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu.

Numeral

telo

1. three

Maranao

Numeral

telo

1. three

References

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Ngaju

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu.

Numeral

telo

1. three

Portuguese

Verb

telo

1. first-person singular present indicative of telar

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• tijȇlo (Ijekvian)
• tilo (Ikavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tělo.

Noun

tȇlo n (Cyrillic spelling те̑ло)

1. body

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tělo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈcɛɫɔ/

Noun

telo n (genitive singular tela, nominative plural telá, genitive plural tiel, declension pattern of mesto)

1. body

Declension

Derived terms

• telový
• tielko
• telíčko

Further reading

• “telo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tělo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛlóː/

Noun

telọ̑ n

1. body

Inflection

Derived terms

• telésen

Further reading

• “telo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Etymology

From a vesre form of hotel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtelo/
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: te‧lo

Noun

telo m (plural telos)

1. (vesre, Argentina, Peru) love hotel

   Synonym: albergue transitorio

   • 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 71:

     He'd made a date in front of a telo with a girl who had a boyfriend.

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪e.l̪o/

Verb

telo

1. (transitive) to fell a tree

   Synonym: adu

Conjugation

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics