English
tee
Tee comes from Old English te ‘to’, and goes back to Latin tē ‘the name of the Latin script letter T/t’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtē‘the name of the Latin script letter T/t’
- Old Englishc. 450–1150te‘to’
- Englishearliest quotation 1773tee
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtē‘the name of the Latin script letter T/t’
- Old Englishc. 450–1150te‘to’
- Englishearliest quotation 1773tee
Earliest quotation: 1773, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal E: “The word length, which contains only four sounds l…”
Every English word from Latin tē
Another origin of tee
- Scotsc. 1450–presentteaz
- Englishtodaytee
First attested in the 17th century as teaz, back-formation from obsolete Scots teaz, later reanalyzed as a plural.
Another origin of tee
- Burmesemodernထီးhti:‘umbrella’
- Englishtodaytee
Today it means
noun The name of the Latin script letter T/t.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin tē / tee