English
teleconnection
From tele- + connection.
A compound of tele- + connection
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- ‘to turn, revolve’
Ancient Greek τῆλε ‘at a distance, far off, far away, far from’
English tele-
Latin nectō ‘to bind, tie’
Latin cōnectō ‘to bind together’
Latin connexiō ‘a binding together’
Middle English conneccioun
English connection
Today it means
noun A causal link between two or more distant weather systems
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “teleconnection”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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