English
teleconversion
From tele- + conversion.
Formed from tele- + conversion
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- ‘to turn, revolve’
Ancient Greek τῆλε ‘at a distance, far off, far away, far from’
English tele-
Proto-Italic *komwertō ‘to turn back’
Latin convertō ‘to turn upside-down’
Latin conversiō ‘the act of turning round or revolving’
Anglo-Norman conversion
Middle English conversion
English conversion
Today it means
noun The enlargement of an image achieved with a teleconverter lens.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “teleconversion”. 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.
Etymograph / teleconversion