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/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

télévision f (plural télévisions)

1. 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

Further reading

• “télévision”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.