A compound of tele- + text
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- ‘to turn, revolve’
Ancient Greek τῆλε ‘at a distance, far off, far away, far from’
English tele-
Proto-Italic *teksō
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Latin textus ‘style or texture of a work’
Medieval Latin textus ‘text’
Old French texte
Middle English text
English text
Today it means
noun A text-based information retrieval system using television sets with a suitable decoder; developed by the BBC.
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Etymograph / Teletext
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