televisor
English
Etymology
Appears to have been coined by John Logie Baird in 1926 or earlier.
Noun
televisor (plural televisors)
- (dated) A television set.
- A television broadcaster or telecaster.
- 2004, Michael Ashley, Robert A. W. Lowndes, The Gernsback Days:
- The station announcer, asking the performer to stand before the televisor, will say before the microphone that Mr. So-and-so is being televised.
Asturian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /telebiˈsoɾ/, [t̪e.le.β̞iˈsoɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Hyphenation: te‧le‧vi‧sor
Related terms
Catalan
Pronunciation
Galician
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /te.le.viˈzoʁ/ [te.le.viˈzoh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /te.le.viˈzoɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /te.le.viˈzoʁ/ [te.le.viˈzoχ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /te.le.viˈzoɻ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /tɨ.lɨ.viˈzoɾ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /tɨ.lɨ.biˈzoɾ/ [tɨ.lɨ.βiˈzoɾ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /tɨ.lɨ.viˈzo.ɾi/
See also
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /telebiˈsoɾ/ [t̪e.le.β̞iˈsoɾ]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: te‧le‧vi‧sor
Noun
televisor m (plural televisores)
- television set, TV set, television receiver, television, (colloquial) telly (a device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form)
- Synonyms: televisión, tele
- 1973, “Cuando Ya Me Empiece a Quedar Solo”, in Confesiones de Invierno, performed by Sui Generis:
- Un televisor inútil / Eléctrica compañía / La radio a todo volumen / Y una prisión que no es mía
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “televisor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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