televisión

/telebiˈsjon/ · A2 · noun · f

television

📺 tele (far) + visión (sight) = far-sight, same build as English television

Greek tele means far, Latin visio means seeing. Spanish keeps the English word almost letter for letter, adding an accent on the final o and stressing that last syllable: te-le-vi-SIÓN. It is feminine: la televisión, often shortened to la tele.

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