télévision French · revision 15844

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=1900, Perskyi}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /te.le.vi.zjɔ̃/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''télévision''' ''f'' (plural télévisions)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|fr|télé-|vision]], a learned compound meaning “seeing at a distance”.^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|18, 123a) Wiktionary credits Constantin Perskyi with its first use, in a paper read to the International Electricity Congress at the Paris World Fair on 25 August 1900.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi) [[en|television]] (1907) is either formed in English or borrowed from French,^(Etymonline) and German had a similar formation in 1909;^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005) the TLFi and the GLLF treat the French word as borrowed from English.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Perskyi's 1900 paper, ''Télévision au moyen de l'électricité'', used it of a system for transmitting images at a distance.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In 1908 it named the transmission of images by electric waves (Monier), and the word ''télé-optique'' (1892) had preceded it.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) It was a purely scientific term until the experiments of about 1925–1930, when René Barthélemy called broadcasting to the public ''radiovision'' (1930);^(Grand Robert 2005)^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) it came into common use after 1945, with the spread of the medium.^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ By metonymy it named the whole of broadcasting activity and, from 1952, the receiving set, in competition with ''téléviseur'' (1930) and the familiar ''télé'' (about 1952) and ''téloche'' (1967).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) The adjective ''télévisé'' (1929) is in common use (''journal télévisé'').^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1892 – ''Télé-optique''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1900 – ''Télévision'' in Perskyi's paper.^(Wiktionary)

+ * 1907 – English ''television''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1908 – Image transmission by electric waves.^(TLFi)

+ * 1929 – ''Télévisé''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1935 – Broadcasting to receivers in homes.^(TLFi)

+ * 1952 – The receiving set; the clipping ''télé''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|television|alt=Television]], the transmission of moving images and sound: ''télévision numérique'', ''télévision par câble''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # Television broadcasting; the organisations and services that provide it.^(Larousse)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # A television set.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[télé]]

+ * [[téléviseur]]

+ * [[télévisé]]

+ * [[télévisuel]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vision]]

+ * [[téléphone]]

+ * [[en|television]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}