tele
Portuguese, noun/ˌtɛ.le/
tele is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “clipping of telemóvel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of telar.
What does tele mean in English?
noun
- 1
Portugalcolloquialmasculineclipping of telemóvel
noun
- 1
Portugalcolloquialfeminineclipping of televisão
Viste o filme que acabou de passar na tele?
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
prefix
- 1
tele- (over a distance)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
prefix: 1. longe
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tele
- teles plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tele?
- Brazil /ˌtɛ.le/
- Brazil /te.le/
- Portugal /ˌtɛ.lɛ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tele
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tele in Portuguese?
tele appears 2.5 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).