# telo
## Dutch
### Etymology

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.

### Noun

telo m (uncountable)
* (originally Suriname) a snack made of fried cassava

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Tell.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtelo]
* Rhymes: -elo
* Hyphenation: te‧lo

### Noun

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

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈteloˣ/, [ˈt̪e̞lo̞(ʔ)]
* Rhymes: -elo
* Hyphenation: te‧lo

### Verb

telo
* inflection of teloa:
** present active indicative connegative
** second-person singular present imperative
** second-person singular present active imperative connegative

### Anagrams

* elot, olet

## Italian
### Etymology 1

Gender shift from tela.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈte.lo/
* Rhymes: -elo
* Hyphenation: té‧lo

#### Noun

telo m (plural teli)
* sheet, cloth, length of cloth

##### Related terms

* tela
* telo da bagno
* telo da mare
* telone

#### Further reading

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

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin tēlum.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛ.lo/
* Rhymes: -ɛlo
* Hyphenation: tè‧lo

#### Noun

telo m (plural teli)
* (historical) a hand-thrown weapon, especially an arrow, a dart or a javelin
* (by extension, poetic, uncommon) weapon
    Synonym: arma

#### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* Leto

## Latin
### Noun

tēlō
* dative singular and ablative singular of tēlum

### References

* "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)

## Malagasy
### Etymology

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

### Numeral

telo
* three

## Maranao
### Numeral

telo
* three

### References

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

## Ngaju
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu.

### Numeral

telo
* three

## Portuguese
### Verb

telo
* first-person singular present indicative of telar

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* tijȇlo (Ijekvian)
* tilo (Ikavian)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tělo.

### Noun

tȇlo n (Cyrillic spelling те̑ло)
* body

#### Declension
## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tělo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈcɛɫɔ/

### Noun

telo n
* body

#### Derived terms

* telový
* tielko
* telíčko

### Further reading

* “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

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tělo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛlóː/

### Noun

telọ̑ n
* body

#### Derived terms

* telésen

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

From a vesre form of hotel.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtelo/ [ˈt̪e.lo]
* Rhymes: -elo
* Syllabification: te‧lo

### Noun

telo m (plural telos)
* (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)

## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt̪e.l̪o/

### Verb

telo
* (transitive) to fell a tree
    Synonym: adu

#### Conjugation
### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics