télévision

See also: television, televisión, and télévîsion

French

Etymology

From télé- (“far off”) +‎ vision (“seeing”), first used by Constantin Perskyi in a paper ("Télévision au moyen de l’électricité") read to the International Electricity Congress at the International World Fair in Paris on August 25, 1900.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te.le.vi.zjɔ̃/
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Noun

télévision f (plural télévisions)

television
Synonym: télé

Derived terms

télévision par câble

Descendants

→ Arabic: تِلِفِزْيُون (tilifizyūn)
→ English: television (see there for further descendants)
→ Dutch: televisie (see there for further descendants)
→ German: Fernsehen (calque)
→ Greek: τηλεόραση (tileórasi) (calque)
→ Haitian Creole: televizyon
→ Persian: تِلِویزیون (televizyon)
→ Portuguese: televisão (calque)
- → Hunsrik: Tëlevisong
→ Russian: телевидение (televidenije) (calque)
- → Kazakh: телевидение (televidenie)
→ Spanish: televisión (calque)
→ Turkish: televizyon