Etymology

tela

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Today it means: A thin, web-like structure or membrane. Full definition →

Latin tēla
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromtēla“web”
  2. English todaytela

Learned borrowing from Latin tēla (“web”). Doublet of toile.

Words from the same roots

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