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Original entry ↗prefix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryover a distance · television · telegraph · telephone
From Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “at a distance, far off, far away, far from”).
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- Derivation mentionτῆλεgrc
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