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tegular (adj.)[tegular 词源字典]: "of or like a tile," 1796, from Latin tegula "tile" (see tile (n.)) + -ar. Related: Tegulated.[tegular etymology, tegular origin, 英语词源]
tegument (n.): "a covering, a natural protection of the body or some part of it," mid-15c., from Latin tegumentum "a covering, a cover," from tegere "to cover," from PIE root *(s)teg- (2) "to cover" (see stegosaurus). Related: Tegumentary.
Tehran: also Teheran, Iranian capital, said to mean "flat, level, lower," but sometimes derived from Old Persian teh "warm" + ran "place."
Tejano: "native or inhabitant of Texas," 1925, from American Spanish, formerly Texano "a Texan" (see Texas).
tektite (n.): small roundish glass bodies, probably of meteoric origin, 1909, from German tektit (Suess, 1900), from Greek tektos "molten," from tekein "to melt."
Telamon: in Greek mythology, father of Ajax, brother of Peleus, literally "the Bearer," from Greek telamon "broad strap for bearing something."
telangiectasia (n.): 1831, Modern Latin, from Greek telos "end" (see tele-), + angeion "vessel" (see angio-), + ektasis "a stretching out, extension, dilation," from ek (see ex-) + tasis "a stretching, tension, intensity" (see tenet) + abstract noun ending -ia.
tele-: before vowels tel-, word-forming element meaning "far, far off, operating over distance" (also, since c. 1940, "television"), from Greek tele-, combining form of tele "far off, afar, at or to a distance," related to teleos (genitive telos) "end, goal, completion, perfection," literally "completion of a cycle," from PIE *kwel-es- (cognates: Sanskrit caramah "the last," Breton pell "far off," Welsh pellaf "uttermost"), perhaps from root *kwel- (1) (see cycle (n.)).
telecast (n.): 1937, from television + broadcast (n.). The verb is recorded from 1940.
telecom (n.): abbreviation of telecommunication, attested by 1963.
telecommunication (n.): 1932, from French télécommunication (see tele- + communication). Related: Telecommunications.
telecommute (v.): by 1974 (as a hypothetical experience), from tele- + commute. Related: Telecommuted. Compare telecommuting.
telecommuting (n.): by 1975, as a hypothetical workplace set-up; verbal noun from telecommute. Said to have been coined by Jack Niles of USC.
teleconference (n.): 1952, originally a proprietary name, from tele- + conference. Not in common use until c. 1974.
telegenic (adj.): 1939, from television + ending from photogenic.
Judith Barrett, pretty and blonde actress, is the first Telegenic Girl to go on record. In other words, she is the perfect type of beauty for television. ... She is slated for the first television motion picture. [Baltimore "Sun," Oct. 16, 1939]
telegony (n.): supposed influence of a sire on the offspring of a female by a later sire, 1893, from Greek tele "far off" (see tele-) + -geneia "origin," from -genes "born" (see genus).
telegram (n.): "telegraphic dispatch," according to Bartlett's 1859 edition a coinage of E. Peshine Smith of Rochester, N.Y., from tele-, as in telegraph + -gram, and introduced in the Albany "Evening Journal" of April 6, 1852. Damned in the cradle by purists who pointed out that the correct formation would be telegrapheme (which is close to the Modern Greek word).
May I suggest to such as are not contented with 'Telegraphic Dispatch' the rightly constructed word 'telegrapheme'? I do not want it, but ... I protest against such a barbarism as 'telegram.' [Richard Shilleto, Cambridge Greek scholar, in the London "Times," Oct. 15, 1857]
Related: Telegrammic.
telegraph (n.): 1794, "semaphor apparatus" (hence the Telegraph Hill in many cities), literally "that which writes at a distance," from French télégraphe, from télé- "far" (from Greek tele-; see tele-) + -graphe (see -graphy). The signaling device had been invented in France in 1791 by the brothers Chappe, who had called it tachygraphe, literally "that which writes fast," but the better name was suggested to them by French diplomat Comte André-François Miot de Mélito (1762-1841). First applied 1797 to an experimental electric telegraph (designed by Dr. Don Francisco Salva at Barcelona); the practical version was developed 1830s by U.S. inventor Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872). Meaning "telegraphic message" is from 1821. Related: Telegraphy.
telegraph (v.): 1805, from telegraph (n.). Figurative meaning "to signal one's intentions" is first attested 1925, originally in boxing. Related: Telegraphed; telegraphing.
telegraphese (n.): stripped-down style used to save expenses in writing telegraphs, 1885, from telegraph (n.) + -ese. Earlier in reference to the style of writing in the London "Daily Telegraph," which was rather the reverse.