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Portuguese
Etymology
From tela + -ona. The cinema sense is a semantic loan from English big screen.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -õnɐ, (Portugal) -onɐ
- Hyphenation: te‧lo‧na
Noun
telona f (plural telonas)
- (Brazil, colloquial) big screen
2016 May 30, “Mais Forte Que o Mundo – A História de José Aldo”, in Guia Sucessos do Cinema, São Paulo: On Line Editora, page 12:Curiosidade: o ator José Loreto, que interpretou José Aldo, foi muito elogiado pelo lutador, que revelou até se confundir com ele mesmo quando o viu na telona.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
2020 December 7, Nora Roberts, chapter 1, in Carolina Simmer, transl., Refúgio, Rio de Janeiro: Bertrand Brasil, translation of Hideaway, →ISBN, page 14:Hugh lhes daria o primeiro neto antes de perder a esposa, o amor de sua vida, em um acidente aéreo enquanto ela voltava de filmagens em Montana. / E esse filho, com o tempo, se tornaria outro Sullivan nas telonas.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Augmentative of tela
2014 April 26, Mario Mazeu, “Campeões de imagem”, in Plaza, ano 10, number 24, São Paulo: Grand Plaza Shopping, page 12:Se vamos conquistar o hexa é difícil prever, mas a nossa seleção vai fazer bonito nas telonas e nas telinhas num show de imagem.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “telona”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024