Etymograph

English

teleoperation

From tele- + operation.

A compound of tele- + operation

Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- ‘to turn, revolve’

Ancient Greek τῆλε ‘at a distance, far off, far away, far from’

English tele-

Latin opus ‘work’

Latin operor ‘to work’

Latin operātiō

Old French operacion ‘action’

Middle English operacioun

English operation

Today it means

noun The remote operation of a device

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “teleoperation”. 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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