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telo

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See also: teló, tělo, telo-, and тело

Dutch

Etymology

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

telo m (plural telo's, no diminutive)

  1. (originally Suriname, uncountable) strips of parboiled and then fried cassava
  2. (chiefly Suriname, countable, metonymic) a meal containing telo as a side dish, usually with a serving of a green vegetable such as yardlong bean, and a serving of fish, such as sprats or salt cod
  3. (chiefly Netherlands, countable, metonymic) a snack consisting of telo and a small serving of salt cod
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Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from German Tell.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtelo/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -elo
  • Hyphenation: te‧lo

Noun

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

  1. mound

Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

Italian

Etymology 1

Gender shift from tela.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

telo m (plural teli)

  1. sheet, cloth, length of cloth

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin tēlum.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

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

Anagrams

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Latin

Noun

tēlō

  1. dative singular and ablative singular of tēlum

References

Malagasy

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

Etymology

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

Numeral

telo

  1. three

Maranao

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

Numeral

telo

  1. three

References

  • Howard P. McKaughan, Batua A. Macaraya (1967), A Maranao Dictionary‎ (overall work in Maranao and English), University of Hawaii Press

Ngaju

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu.

Numeral

telo

  1. three

Portuguese

Verb

telo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of telar

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tělo.

Noun

tȇlo n (Cyrillic spelling те̑ло)

  1. body

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
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Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tělo.

Pronunciation

Noun

telo n

  1. body

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “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, 2003–2025
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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tělo.

Pronunciation

Noun

telọ̑ n

  1. body

Declension

More information Declension of (neuter, s-stem), nom. sing. ...

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “telo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Spanish

Etymology

From a vesre form of hotel.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

telo m (plural telos)

  1. (vesre, Rioplatense, Peru, humorous) love hotel
    Synonym: albergue transitorio
    • 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 71:
      Se había citado frente a un telo con una mina que estaba de novia.
      He'd made a date in front of a telo with a girl who had a boyfriend.

West Makian

Pronunciation

Verb

telo

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

Conjugation

More information singular, plural ...

References

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

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