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==Etymology==
− It is [[bor|fr|télégraphe]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from télé-, far (Greek tēle-), and -graphe, writer (see [[-graph]]), so “that which writes at a distance”.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Cresswell 2021) The French word was suggested in 1792 by the diplomat Miot de Melito to replace tachygraphe, the name proposed by Claude Chappe, coinventor of the semaphore apparatus.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Cresswell 2021)
+ It is [[bor|fr|télégraphe]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from [[m|fr|télé-]], far (Greek tēle-), and -graphe, writer (see [[-graph]]), so “that which writes at a distance”.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Cresswell 2021) The French word was suggested in 1792 by the diplomat Miot de Melito to replace tachygraphe, the name proposed by Claude Chappe, coinventor of the semaphore apparatus.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Cresswell 2021)
==Earliest recorded meaning==