Where does “televisionography” come from?
televisionography (English) comes from English televisión, from French télévision, from German Television, from Italian televisione, from Spanish televisión, from Spanish tele-, from Ancient Greek τῆλε, from Latin commūnicāre — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
televisionography (English): A selective list of television series (or rarely episodes) that share a similar characteristic, such as being of the same genre, having the same subject, or having the same director, actor, etc
Definitions
- A selective list of television series (or rarely episodes) that share a similar characteristic, such as being of the same genre, having the same subject, or having the same director, actor, etc
Ancestry of “televisionography”, step by step
televisionography traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English televisión
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | televisión | An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound |
| 2 | French | télévision | television |
| 3 | German | Television | — |
| 4 | Italian | televisione | television |
| 5 | Spanish | televisión | television |
| 6 | Spanish | tele- | tele |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 17 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 18 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 19 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 21 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via English ‐o‐
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ‐o‐ | — |
| 2 | English | -prim | Used to form names of trimethoprim derivatives acting as |
| 3 | English | trimethoprim | A synthetic antibiotic used to treat malaria and... |
| 4 | English | trimethoxy | Three methoxy groups in a molecule |
| 5 | English | methoxy | The univalent radical CH-O- derived from methanol |
| 6 | English | oxy- | Sharp, keen, acute, pungent, acid; Concerning... |
| 7 | English | oxygen | The chemical element with an atomic number of 8... |
| 8 | French | oxygène | oxygen; inflection of oxygéner: ##... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | γένος | offspring, descendant; family, clan; nation, race |
| 10 | Proto-Hellenic | génos | family; race |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |