Τηλέπυλος
Ancient Greek
proper noun
Definitions
- Telepylus, a town of the Laestrygonians
Etymology
Compound from Ancient Greek τῆλε (afar, far away, at a distance, far off, far from, distant, far) + Ancient Greek πύλη (gate, one wing of a pair of double gates, entrance, orifice, wing of gates).
Origin
Ancient Greek
πύλη
Gloss
gate, one wing of a pair of double gates, entrance, orifice, wing of gates
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
門
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- tele- English
- telencephalon English
- telephone English
- telestial English
- television English
- pylae Latin
- telephonum Latin
- visio Latin
- vīsiō Latin
- tele- Hungarian
- micropilo Italian
- télé- French
- télégraphe French
- téléphone French
- телефон Russian
- Εὐρύπυλος Ancient Greek
- Τήλεφος Ancient Greek
- Τηλέμαχος Ancient Greek
- πυλίς Ancient Greek
- πύλη Ancient Greek
- τέλος Ancient Greek
- τηλόθεν Ancient Greek
- τῆλε Ancient Greek
- *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European
- tele- Norwegian Bokmål
- Ὑψιπύλη Japanese
- tele- Norwegian Nynorsk
- teili- Irish
- tele- Czech
- tele- Catalan, Valencian
- πύλη Greek (modern)
- tele- Basque