tela

Learned borrowing from Latin tēla (“web”). Doublet of toile.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːlə/
• Rhymes: -iːlə

tela (plural telas or telae)

1. (anatomy) A thin, web-like structure or membrane.

• EATL, ETLA, Elta, LATE, TEAL, TEAl, Teal, et al, et al., late, leat, tael, tale, teal

tela

1. land

• 1994, Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken, Norval Smith (editors), Pidgins and Creoles: an introduction
• 2005, John H. McWhorter, Defining Creole

From Old Catalan tela, from Latin tēla.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.lə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.la/

tela f (plural teles)

1. cloth, fabric
2. canvas (cloth on which one may paint)

   Synonym: llenç

• “tela” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tela” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “tela”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

From Proto-Finnic *tela (compare Ingrian tela, Karelian tela, Veps tela), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *þelą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtelɑ/, [ˈt̪e̞lɑ]
• Rhymes: -elɑ
• Syllabification^(key): te‧la

tela

1. a log or other piece of wood used as support to keep something, such as a boat or a pile of firewood from directly touching the ground
2. (by extension) a place where something is left or stored (usually in adessive, ablative or allative plural)
3. roller (one of a set of round logs used to help move a large object by rolling it over the logs)
4. roller, cylinder
5. track; Short for telaketju (“caterpillar track”).
6. platen (part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made)
7. platen, carriage (part of a typewriter or printer on which the paper rests to receive an impression)

• (round log used as support): telapuu

• alet, laet

Borrowed from English tailor.

• IPA^(key): /téː.là/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [téː.lə̀]

tēlà m (plural tēlōlī, possessed form tēlàn)

1. tailor

tela

1. Niʻihau form of kēlā (“that”)

   He keiti tela.

   That (far away) is a child.

• In Niihau, diacritics are omitted. If one were to use them, the spelling would be tēlā.

From Latin tēla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.la/
• Rhymes: -ela
• Hyphenation: té‧la

tela f (plural tele)

1. cloth

   Synonyms: stoffa, tessuto

2. canvas
3. curtain (theatre)

• telaio

• alte, late, tale

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈteː.la/, [ˈt̪eːɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.la/, [ˈt̪ɛːlä]

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From Proto-Italic *tekslā. Equivalent to texō (“weave; plait”) +‎ -ēla.

tēla f (genitive tēlae); first declension

1. web
2. warp (threads that run lengthwise in a loom)
3. loom
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.699-700:

     et tamen assiduīs exercet brāchia tēlīs
     ādversusque minās frīgoris arma parat.

     And yet she keeps her arms busy at the looms,
     and so prepares armor (having been) set against the threats of winter.

First-declension noun.

• subtīlis

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tēla n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of tēlum

• “tela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tela”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tela in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be exposed to the assaults of fate: fortunae telis propositum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to discharge missiles: tela iacere, conicere, mittere
    
  • (ambiguous) to expose oneself to missiles: se obicere telis
    
  • (ambiguous) to discharge showers of missiles: tela ingerere, conicere
    
• “tela”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tela”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “tela”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• teala, teola, telo, tiolo

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.lɑ/

tela

1. well, rightly
2. completely, thoroughly, certainly
3. happily, prosperously, pleasantly
4. very

tela

1. well! good!

Inherited from Sanskrit तैल (tailá), itself from Sanskrit तिल (tila), cognate with Pali tila (“sesame”)

tela n[1]

1. oil (particularly from sesame)[1]

• telaghaṭa

From Latin tēla (“web; loom”). Doublet of teia (“web”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.lɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.la/
• Hyphenation: te‧la

tela f (plural telas)

1. canvas (piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint)
2. (by extension) painting (an illustration or artwork using paint)

   Synonyms: pintura, quadro

3. screen (viewing area of a movie, slide presentation, etc.)
4. (by extension) cinema

   Synonym: (Portugal) ecrã

5. (Brazil) screen (viewing area of electronic output devices)

   Synonym: (Portugal) ecrã

6. (biology) a very thin tissue

• telada
• telado

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) taila
• (Sursilvan, Surmiran) teila

From Latin tēla.

tela f (plural telas)

1. (textiles, Sutsilvan) material, textile, canvas

• tela filient (“spiderweb”)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *toli.

tela

1. so many, so much

• IPA^(key): /ˈcɛɫa/

tela

1. genitive singular of telo

From Old Spanish tela, from Latin tēla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtela/ [ˈt̪e.la]

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• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: te‧la

tela f (plural telas)

1. (fabric) cloth, fabric (woven material made of fibers)

   Synonym: género

2. (colloquial) difficult task (difficult or tedious undertaking, especially as part of one's duties)

   Limpiar el garaje es mucha tela.

   Cleaning the garage is tough work.

3. (colloquial) cash, dosh (money)

   Synonym: pasta

tela

1. (Spain, colloquial) loads; lots; a shedload; extremely

   Es un chico tela de gracioso.

   He's a really funny fella.

• “tela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Spanish tela.

• Hyphenation: te‧la
• IPA^(key): /ˈtela/, [ˈte.lɐ]

tela

1. cloth; fabric; textile

   Synonyms: kayo, damit

• telareho

Given by Hayami-Allen to be from Portuguese [Term?].

• IPA^(key): [ˈte.la]

tela

1. maize, corn

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

From Proto-Finnic *tela, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *þelą. Cognates include Finnish tela.

tela

1. (clarification of this definition is needed) roller

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “каток”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika