Translation
television
Word origin
An Esperanto compound built from tele (far, from Greek tele) and the verb vidi (to see, from Latin videre), plus the noun ending -o. It mirrors the international word television, which is built from the same Greek and Latin parts. Strictly it names the medium; the set itself is a televidilo, with the tool suffix -il.
- Origin
- Greek + Latin
- Root
- tele + vidi
- English cognates
- television, video
Examples
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I watch television every evening.
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He heard about the war through television.
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We do not have television in the house.
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