Te

See also: Appendix:Variations of "te"

Translingual

Symbol

Te

1. (chemistry) Chemical symbol for tellurium.

English

Etymology 1

From Coptic ⲧⲏ (tē), from Egyptian (“dwꜣt”). Doublet of Duat.

Proper noun

Te

1. (Egyptology, Egyptian mythology) The realm of the dead in Egyptian mythology.

Etymology 2

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Mandarin 德 (Dé, “virtue, manliness”).

Proper noun

Te

1. (historical) Alternative form of De, a former prefecture of imperial China around Dezhou in northwestern Shandong.
   • 1960, “Translation (Chiu Tʻang-shu 200A.1a-5b)”, in Howard S. Levy, transl., Biography of An Lu-shan‎, Berkley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 45:

     The next year the reign style was changed to Chʻien-yüan 乾元 (February 13, 758-February 2, 759). Wang Chien 王暕,¹⁷⁸ the bogus Prefect of Te Prefecture 德州, Yü-wen Kʻuan 宇文寛, the bogus Prefect of Pei Prefecture 貝州,¹⁷⁹ and others all renewed their allegiance [to the Tʻang court].

Finnish

Etymology

Capitalized te.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈte/, [ˈt̪e̞]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification^(key): Te
• Hyphenation^(key): Te

Pronoun

Te

1. (address) You (very formal, honorific or respectful 2nd person address both in singular and in plural) (alternative letter-case form of te)

Usage notes

See Appendix:Finnish polite forms.

Declension

Declension of Te noun case singular plural nominative Te Te genitive Teidän Teidän partitive Teitä Teitä accusative Teidät Teidät inessive Teissä Teissä elative Teistä Teistä illative Teihin Teihin adessive Teillä Teillä ablative Teiltä Teiltä allative Teille Teille essive Teinä Teinä translative Teiksi Teiksi abessive – – instructive – – comitative – –

See also

Finnish personal pronouns

	first	second		third
		familiar	polite
singular	minä	sinä	Te	hän
plural	me	te		he

Anagrams

• et

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• Tee, Thee

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 戴 (Tè).

Proper noun

Te

1. a Chinese Indonesian surname from Hokkien.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 戴 (Tè).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈte/ [ˈt̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: Te
• Homophone: te

Proper noun

Te (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒ)

1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien

See also

• Tee
• Ty