té

Noun

té m (plural tés)

1. tea

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈte]
• Homophone: te
• Rhymes: -e

Verb

té

1. inflection of tenir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of tindre:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛː]

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Further reading

• “té”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “té”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: thé, tes

Noun

té m (plural tés)

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

Further reading

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ/ [ˈt̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛ

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: té

Noun

té m (plural tés)

1. tea

   Tomar o té é un costume moi inglés que os británicos trouxeron dende a India.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. the shrub Camellia sinsensis

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -e

Verb

té alternate of nté

1. to remove

References

• Erika Eichholzer (editor) et al, Dictionnaire ghomala’ (2002)
• Gabriel Mba, Les extensions verbales en Ghomala' - Journal of West African Languages XXVI.1 (1996-97)

Noun

té

1. tree
2. handle

References

• R. Blench, Comparative Ogonic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈteː]
• Hyphenation: té
• Rhymes: -teː

Noun

té

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

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / elly / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

Further reading

• té in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰjɛː/

  Rhymes: -ɛː

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

• Per Gerhard Köbler, possibly from Proto-Germanic *tehwō (“order, array”); compare Middle High German zeche.
• Per Íslensk orðsifjabók, more likely from a putative Proto-Germanic *tī̆ha-, from Proto-Germanic *tīhaną (“to show, to point out”).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English tee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲeː/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Etymology 2

From Old Irish intí; synchronically analyzable as t- (marker of t-prothesis) + é (“him”).

Etymology 3

Mutation

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “té”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “té”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “té”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

Noun

té

1. Misspelling of tè.

Alternative forms

• tè

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Probably inherited from French "étais".”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te/
• Rhymes: -e
• Homophone: tê

Particle

té

1. anterior past tense marker

   To té paʼlé gra. / To te pale gra. ― You spoke with an accent. (literally, “You had spoken thick.”)

   Si mo té koné ça.... ― If I had known that....

2. (with stative verbs) simple past tense marker

   No té gin in nòt fiy. ― We had another girl.

3. (copulative, past tense) was

   Li té brav. ― He was brave.

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *tɛh; cognate with Vietnamese đẻ.

Verb

té

1. (Mường Bi) to give birth to
2. (Mường Bi) to birth

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʲeː]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *teɸents, from the present participle of Proto-Indo-European *tep- (“to be warm”) (compare Latin tepēns).

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “té, te”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te/

Noun

té m

1. tea

Pronunciation

Preposition

té

1. (Brazil) Nonstandard form of até.

Adverb

té (not comparable)

1. (Brazil) Nonstandard form of até.

Interjection

té

1. (Brazil) Nonstandard form of até.

Noun

té m or f (invariable)

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

Alternative forms

• te (Sursilvan)
• tè (Puter, Vallader)

Noun

té m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) tea

Pronoun

té f

1. Superseded spelling of tè.

Etymology

From Hokkien 茶 (tê). Doublet of cha. Compare Dutch thee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈte/ [ˈt̪e]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: té
• Homophone: te

Noun

té m (plural tés)

1. tea

   Synonym: cha (Philippines)

See also

• infusión

Further reading

• “té”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Noun

té

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

Noun

té

1. stone; rock

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tɛ˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tɛ˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tɛ˦˥]

• Audio (Saigon):

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Verb

té

1. (chiefly Southern Vietnam, intransitive) to trip
2. (chiefly Southern Vietnam, intransitive) to fall, to fall over
3. to sprinkle

   té nước ― to sprinkle water

Anagrams

• ét

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te/

Noun

té m (plural tés)

1. tea

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te/

Conjunction

té

1. and (used between adjectives)