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- French · borrowed fromtélégraphe
- English todaytelegraph
Borrowed from French télégraphe, equivalent to tele- (“far, distant”) + -graph (“writing”), suggested as a new name for Claude Chappe's overland semaphore network by André François Miot de Mélito in place of Chappe's original tachygraphe (“tachygraph, fast writer”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.