tele-
English
prefix
Definitions
- over a distance
- television
- telegraph
- telephone
- teleport
Etymology
Derived from Ancient Greek τῆλε (afar, far away, at a distance, far off, far from, distant, far) root from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (turn, move, going around, revolve, far, dwell, and therefore to sojourn, revolve around).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷel-
Gloss
turn, move, going around, revolve, far, dwell, and therefore to sojourn, revolve around
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
🙃
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -scope English
- columnist English
- cult English
- decollate English
- decollation English
- electro- English
- horticulture English
- telegram English
- telelectroscope English
- telencephalon English
- telephone English
- telestial English
- teletype English
- television English
- telic English
- telicity English
- Colōnia Agrippīna Latin
- ad- Latin
- agricola Latin
- agricultura Latin
- collum Latin
- collāris Latin
- colo Latin
- colonia Latin
- colonus Latin
- columna Latin
- colōnia Latin
- cultura Latin
- cultus Latin
- cultōrem Latin
- cultūra Latin
- telephonum Latin
- viscericola Latin
- visio Latin
- vīsiō Latin
- tele- Hungarian
- telefonata Italian
- telefonatore Italian
- telefonatrice Italian
- tele- Dutch, Flemish
- telegraferen Dutch, Flemish
- telegrafisch Dutch, Flemish
- telescoop Dutch, Flemish
- télé- French
- télégraphe French
- télégraphie French
- téléphone French
- télévision French
- телефон Russian
- Τήλεφος Ancient Greek
- Τηλέμαχος Ancient Greek
- Τηλέπυλος Ancient Greek
- βουκολικός Ancient Greek
- κυκλοτερής Ancient Greek
- κύκλος Ancient Greek
- πάλαι Ancient Greek
- πέλω Ancient Greek
- περιπλόμενος Ancient Greek
- πλήμνη Ancient Greek
- πόλος Ancient Greek
- τέλειος Ancient Greek
- τέλος Ancient Greek
- τελέω Ancient Greek
- τηλεσκόπος Ancient Greek
- τηλόθεν Ancient Greek
- τῆλε Ancient Greek
- ἀνατολή Ancient Greek
- *(s)kel- Proto-Indo-European
- *-kʷolos Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷowkólos Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷowkólos, *gʷow-kólos Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁ésmi Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂mbʰi-kʷol-ó-s, *h₂m̥bʰikʷolós Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷekʷlóm Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷl̥His Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷl̥tós Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷolso- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷolsom Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷukʷlos Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷékʷlos Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷéleti Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷélus Proto-Indo-European
- *wert- Proto-Indo-European
- *wes- Proto-Indo-European
- tele- Norwegian Bokmål
- culto Portuguese
- tele- Norwegian Nynorsk
- आचार Sanskrit
- चर् Sanskrit
- चलति Sanskrit
- চৰতি, चरति Sanskrit
- teili- Irish
- inquilinus Old Norse
- *kolo Proto-Slavic
- tele- Czech
- tele- Catalan, Valencian
- چالش Persian
- چریدن Persian
- dychwelyd Welsh
- pell Welsh
- klaips Latvian
- հոլով Old Armenian
- စက်ဘီး Burmese
- *čárati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- tele- Basque
- aṅklautkatte Tocharian B
- *palaiós, *palai(y)ós Proto-Hellenic
- *kaklas bat-pro