tela

Borrowed from Latin tēla (“web”).

tela (plural telas or telae)

1. (anatomy) a thin, weblike structure or membrane

• EATL, ETLA, Elta, TEAL, TEAl, Teal, et al, et al., late, leat, tael, tale, teal

tela

1. land

• 1994, Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken, Norval Smith (editors), Pidgins and Creoles: an introduction
• 2005, John H. McWhorter, Defining Creole

From Old Occitan tela, from Latin tēla.

tela f (plural teles)

1. cloth, fabric
2. canvas (cloth on which one may paint)

• (canvas): llenç

• teler
• teranyina

• teixir

• “tela” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *þelą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtelɑ/, [ˈt̪e̞lɑ]
• Rhymes: -elɑ

tela

1. One of a set of round logs used as support to keep something, such as a boat or a pile of firewood, from touching directly the ground, or to help move a large object by rolling it over the logs.
2. (by extension) A place where something is left or stored; usually in adessive, ablative or allative plural.
3. roller, cylinder
4. track (short of telaketju - "caterpillar track")

• (round log used as support): telapuu

• alet, laet

Borrowed from English tailor.

tēlà m (plural tēlōlī, possessed form tēlàn)

1. tailor

From Latin tēla.

tela f (plural tele)

1. cloth
2. canvas
3. curtain (theatre)

• (cloth): stoffa, tessuto

• telaio

• alte, tale

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈteː.la/, [ˈteː.ɫa]

• Audio (Classical)

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From texō (“weave; plait”) +‎ -ēla.

tēla f (genitive tēlae); first declension

1. web
2. warp (threads that run lengthwise in a loom)
3. loom
4. vocative singular of tēla

tēlā f

1. ablative singular of tēla

First declension.

• subtīlis

tēla n

1. inflection of tēlum:
   1. nominative plural
   2. accusative plural
   3. vocative plural

• tela in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tela in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tela in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be exposed to the assaults of fate: fortunae telis propositum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to discharge missiles: tela iacere, conicere, mittere
    
  • (ambiguous) to expose oneself to missiles: se obicere telis
    
  • (ambiguous) to discharge showers of missiles: tela ingerere, conicere
    
• tela in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tela in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• tela in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

tela n

1. oil

From Latin tēla (“web; loom”). Doublet of teia (“web”).

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.la/, /ˈtɛ.lɐ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.lɐ/
• Hyphenation: te‧la

tela f (plural telas)

1. canvas (piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint)
2. (by extension) painting (an illustration or artwork using paint)

   Synonyms: pintura, quadro

3. screen (viewing area of a movie, slide presentation, etc.)
4. (Brazil) screen (viewing area of electronic output devices)

   Synonym: ecrã (Portugal)

5. (by extension, Brazil) cinema
6. (biology) a very thin tissue

• telada
• telado

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) taila
• (Sursilvan, Surmiran) teila

From Latin tēla.

tela f (plural telas)

1. (textiles, Sutsilvan) material, textile, canvas

• tela filient (“spiderweb”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈcɛɫa/

tela

1. genitive singular of telo

From Old Spanish tela, from Latin tēla.

• IPA^(key): [ˈte̞.la̠]

tela f (plural telas)

1. (fabric) cloth, fabric (woven material made of fibers)
2. (colloquial) task, difficult task (difficult or tedious undertaking, especially as part of one's duties)
3. (colloquial) cash, dosh (money)

• (cloth): género
• (money): pasta

• tela de dónde cortar
• tela de juicio
• telar
• telaraña
• telón

• “tela” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Related to Finnish tela.

tela

1. (clarification of this definition is needed) roller

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “каток”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika