telo

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See also: teló, tělo, telo-, and тело

Dutch[edit]

Telo met bakkeljauw.

Etymology[edit]

From Caribbean Javanese telo, from Javanese ꦠꦺꦭ (téla), a variant of ꦏꦠꦺꦭ (katéla), a word for non-native tuberous plants that was borrowed from Portuguese Castela and thus ultimately derives from Latin castellum, making this a doublet of ketella, kasteel, chateau, Castilië, Kessel, and castellum. Cognate to Indonesian ketela.

Noun[edit]

telo m (uncountable)

  1. (originally Suriname) A snack made of fried cassava.

Esperanto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from German Tell.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈtelo]
  • Rhymes: -elo
  • Hyphenation: te‧lo

Noun[edit]

telo (accusative singular telon, plural teloj, accusative plural telojn)

  1. mound

Finnish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈteloˣ/, [ˈt̪e̞lo̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -elo
  • Syllabification(key): te‧lo

Verb[edit]

telo

  1. inflection of teloa:
    1. present active indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams[edit]

Italian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Gender shift from tela.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈte.lo/
  • Rhymes: -elo
  • Hyphenation: té‧lo

Noun[edit]

telo m (plural teli)

  1. sheet, cloth, length of cloth
Related terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • télo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin tēlum.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlo
  • Hyphenation: tè‧lo

Noun[edit]

telo m (plural teli)

  1. (historical) a hand-thrown weapon, especially an arrow, a dart or a javelin
  2. (by extension, poetic, uncommon) weapon
    Synonym: arma

Further reading[edit]

  • tèlo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

tēlō

  1. dative singular and ablative singular of tēlum

References[edit]

Malagasy[edit]

Malagasy cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : telo
    Ordinal : fahatelo

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu.

Numeral[edit]

telo

  1. three

Maranao[edit]

Maranao numbers (edit)
 ←  2 3 4  → 
    Cardinal: telo

Numeral[edit]

telo

  1. three

References[edit]

Ngaju[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu.

Numeral[edit]

telo

  1. three

Portuguese[edit]

Verb[edit]

telo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of telar

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tělo.

Noun[edit]

tȇlo n (Cyrillic spelling те̑ло)

  1. body

Declension[edit]

Slovak[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tělo.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

telo n (genitive singular tela, nominative plural telá, genitive plural tiel, declension pattern of mesto)

  1. body

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • telo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *tělo.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

telọ̑ n

  1. body

Inflection[edit]

Declension of telo (neuter, s-stem)
nom. sing. telo
gen. sing. telesa
singular dual plural
nominative telo telesi telesa
accusative telo telesi telesa
genitive telesa teles teles
dative telesu telesoma telesom
locative telesu telesih telesih
instrumental telesom telesoma telesi

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • telo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From a vesre form of hotel.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈtelo/ [ˈt̪e.lo]
  • Rhymes: -elo
  • Syllabification: te‧lo

Noun[edit]

telo m (plural telos)

  1. (vesre, Argentina, Peru) love hotel
    Synonym: albergue transitorio

West Makian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

telo

  1. (transitive) to fell a tree
    Synonym: adu

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of telo (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tetelo metelo atelo
2nd person netelo fetelo
3rd person inanimate itelo detelo
animate
imperative netelo, telo fetelo, telo

References[edit]

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics