tee

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiː/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: T, te, tea, ti

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English te, from Latin te (the name of the letter T).

tee (plural tees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.
   • 1773, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged, October

     The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

   • 1985, Stephen King, Paranoid: A Chant

     They have writing samples and examine the back loops of pees and the crosses of tees.

   • 2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5

     ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".

2. Something shaped like the letter T.

   Hyponyms: tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed

   angles and tees

3. (clothing) T-shirt.

   Brendan pulled a black pocket tee over his head.

• teeshirt
• teevee
• tee bend
• tee joint
• tee junction

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

First attested in the 17th century as teaz, later reanalyzed as a plural.[1] This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

tee (plural tees)

1. (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
2. (sports) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is kicked or hit.
   • 2019 November 3, Liam de Carme, “Boks, you beauties”, in Sunday Times‎:

     Pollard, who went into the semifinals with an unsatisfactory 63% return from the kicking tee, turned it around splendidly against Wales and he continued that form despite missing his first attempt in the final.

3. (curling) The target area of a curling rink
4. The mark at which players aim in quoits.

• tee ball
• tee off
• tee on
• tee up

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)

1. (golf) To place a ball on a tee
   • 1909, Walter J. Travis, Practical Golf‎:

     If at any hole a competitor play his first stroke from outside the limits of the teeing-ground, he shall count that stroke, tee a ball, and play his second stroke from within these limits.

• tee up

tee (plural tees)

1. A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries.

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “tee”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

• EET

From Dutch thee.

• IPA^(key): /tɪə̯/

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tee (uncountable)

1. tea

   Kom ons gaan drink tee.

   Let's go drink some tea.

• rooibostee
• teekoppie

From Proto-Finnic *tee. Cognate with Finnish tie.

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. road, way

• kiirtee
• maantee
• raudtee
• umbtee

From German Tee, ultimately from Min Nan 茶 (tê).

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. tea

• liivatee

tee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

tee

1. Second-person singular imperative form of tegema.
2. Present connegative form of tegema.

Borrowed from Swedish te, itself from Dutch thee, from Min Nan 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈt̪e̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): tee

tee

1. (uncountable) tea (dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis)

   Mene kauppaan ja osta teetä.

   Go to the supermarket and buy some tea.

2. (uncountable) tea (drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water)

   Synonyms: (dialectal) saikka, tsaikka, tsaikku, tsaiju, tsaju, tsaikka, tsaikku, tsaju, tsaiju (dialectal)

   Haluaisitko teetä?

   Would you like some tea?

3. (countable) tea (variety of the tea plant)

   Synonym: teelaatu

   Darjeeling on intialainen tee.

   Darjeeling is a tea from India.

4. (uncountable, by extension) tea (any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants)

   Synonym: juoma

   yrttitee ― herbal tea

   kamomillatee ― camomile tea

   minttutee ― mint tea

5. (countable) tea, cup of tea (cup of any one of these drinks)

   Synonyms: teekupillinen, kuppi teetä

As the plural forms are quite rarely used and as they, with the exception of nominative, look the same as the plural forms of tie (“road”), it may be advisable to substitute a synonym for the word tee in those cases.

From Latin tē.

• IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈt̪e̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): tee

tee

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːˣ/, [ˈt̪e̞ː(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): tee

tee

1. present indicative connegative of tehdä
2. second-person singular present imperative of tehdä
3. second-person singular present imperative connegative of tehdä

• eet

tee m (plural tees)

1. (sports) tee

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

From Proto-Finnic *tee, from Proto-Finno-Permic *teje. Cognates include Finnish tie and Estonian tee.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈteː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈte̝ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: tee

tee

1. street
   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:

     Harkkaisin teen päälle, jää puuttui jalan alle.

     I stepped onto the street, ice got under my feet.

2. way, path
   • 1936, L. G. Terehova; V. G. Erdeli, Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, transl., Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:

     Tiijussimma teen ja läksimmä.

     We recognised the way and we went.

• (street): uulitsa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈteː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈte̝ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: tee

tee

1. inflection of tehä:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. second-person singular imperative connegative

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 66
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 583

From Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ.

têe f

1. toe

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: teen (plural reanalysed as singular)
• Limburgish: tieën (plural reanalysed as singular)

• “tee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “tee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

From English tee.

• IPA^(key): /tiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: ti

tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-er, definite plural tee-ene)

1. (golf) tee
2. (golf) peg

• “tee” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English tee.

• IPA^(key): /tiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: ti

tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-ar, definite plural tee-ane)

1. (golf) tee
2. (golf) peg

• “tee” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ete

teë

1. Alternative spelling of té

Likely from Malay teh, from Min Nan 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect)

• IPA^(key): [teː]

tee

1. tea

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

See the Tetum noun teen.

tee

1. to defecate, to excrete

tee

1. tea

• Midori Osumi, Tinrin Grammar

tee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Finnic *tee.

• (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈteː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: tee

tee

1. way, road

• V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎, 2 edition, Tallinn

Borrowing from Dutch thee, from Malay teh, from Min Nan 茶 (tê).

• IPA^(key): /teː/

tee c (no plural)

1. tea

• “tee”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011