television
Meaningfar-off sight
Common meaning: a system for sending moving pictures over a distance
- telefar offLiddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), p. 804 · scan
- visto seeLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1988 · scan
- ionnoun ending: act or result
‘far off’ + ‘to see’ → television
Journey through time
Hybrid: Greek + Latin Its parts come from different languages; our sources do not record where they were first put together.
Neither part’s path through time is traced in our sources yet; each root is shown from its dictionary entry.
- tele — Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle) “far off” (dictionary form; path not traced)
- vis — Latin videō, vīdī, vīsum “to see” (dictionary form; path not traced)
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle) ‘far off’ + Latin videō ‘to see’.
Did you know (Greek tele, "far…): our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), entry τῆλε (têle), p. 804 · dictionary scan
Did you know (Latin videre, visum,…): our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry videō, p. 1988 · dictionary scan
Roots
- videō, vīdī, vīsum Latin “to see”
- τῆλε (têle) Ancient Greek “far off”
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