Etymograph

English

telerecord

Back-formation from telerecording.

Formed from tele- + record

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

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

English tele-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- ‘heart’

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Latin recordor ‘to remember, call to mind’

Old French recorder ‘to register, to recall’

Old French record

Middle English recorde

English record

Today it means

verb To record for subsequent broadcast via television.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “telerecord”. 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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