telo

From Caribbean Javanese telo, from Javanese ꦠꦺꦭ (téla), a variant of ꦏꦠꦺꦭ (katéla), a word for non-native tuberous plants that was borrowed from Portuguese Castela and thus ultimately derives from Latin castellum, making this a doublet of ketella, kasteel, chateau, Castilië, Kessel, and castellum. Cognate to Indonesian ketela.

telo m (plural telo's)

1. (originally Suriname, uncountable) strips of parboiled and then fried cassava
2. (chiefly Suriname, countable, metonymic) a meal containing telo as a side dish, usually with a serving of a green vegetable such as yardlong bean, and a serving of fish, such as sprats or salt cod
3. (chiefly Netherlands, countable, metonymic) a snack consisting of telo and a small serving of salt cod

Borrowed from German Tell.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtelo/
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: te‧lo

telo (accusative singular telon, plural teloj, accusative plural telojn)

1. mound

• IPA^(key): /ˈteloˣ/, [ˈt̪e̞lo̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification^(key): te‧lo
• Hyphenation^(key): te‧lo

telo

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

• elot, olet

Gender shift from tela.

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.lo/
• Rhymes: -elo
• Hyphenation: té‧lo

telo m (plural teli)

1. sheet, cloth, length of cloth

• télo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Learned borrowing from Latin tēlum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɛlo
• Hyphenation: tè‧lo

telo m (plural teli)

1. (historical) a hand-thrown weapon, especially an arrow, a dart or a javelin
2. (by extension, poetic, uncommon) weapon

   Synonym: arma

• tèlo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Leto

tēlō

1. dative singular and ablative singular of tēlum

• "telo", 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)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu.

telo

1. three

telo

1. three

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu.

telo

1. three

telo

1. first-person singular present indicative of telar

• tijȇlo (Ijekvian)
• tilo (Ikavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tělo.

tȇlo n (Cyrillic spelling те̑ло)

1. body

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tělo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈcɛɫɔ/

telo n

1. body

• telový
• tielko
• telíčko

• “telo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

From Proto-Slavic *tělo.

• IPA^(key): /tɛlóː/

telọ̑ n

1. body

• telésen

• “telo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

From a vesre form of hotel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtelo/ [ˈt̪e.lo]
• Rhymes: -elo
• Syllabification: te‧lo

telo m (plural telos)

1. (vesre, Rioplatense, Peru, humorous) love hotel

   Synonym: albergue transitorio

   • 2021, Pedro Mairal, The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 71:

     He'd made a date in front of a telo with a girl who had a boyfriend.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪e.l̪o/

telo

1. (transitive) to fell a tree

   Synonym: adu

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics