Etymology

television

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Today it means: An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound. Full definition →

English vision ← Middle English visioun ← Anglo-Norman visioun
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
  2. Ancient Greekτῆλε (têle)
  3. Englishtele-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*widtós
  6. Proto-Italic*wissos
  7. Latinvīsus
  8. Latinvīsiō
  9. Anglo-Normanvisioun
  10. Middle Englishvisioun
  11. Englishvision
  12. English todaytelevision

From tele- + vision. First attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.

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