The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromτηλέφιλον
- English todaytelephilon
Borrowed from Ancient Greek τηλέφιλον (tēléphilon); ? from a Pre-Greek word, possibly altered to reflect τῆλε (têle, “far, afar”) + φίλον (phílon, “beloved, love”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.