tee

tee

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtiː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Homophones: T, te, tea, ti

Etymology 1

  • From Middle English [Term?], from Old English te, from Latin te (the name of the letter T).
  • (computing): By analogy with a T-shaped pipe that sends fluids in two directions.

Noun

tee (plural tees)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.
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  2. Something shaped like the letter T.
    Hyponyms: tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed
  4. (clothing) T-shirt.
    Alternative form: T
  5. (computing) The process of redirecting output to multiple destinations.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)

  1. (computing) To redirect output to multiple destinations.

See also

  • (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Etymology 2

First attested in the 17th century as teaz, back-formation from obsolete Scots teaz, later reanalyzed as a plural. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

tee (plural tees)

  1. (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
  2. (sports) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is kicked or hit.
  3. (curling) The target area of a curling rink.
  4. The mark at which players aim in quoits.
Derived terms
  • tee ball
  • teebox
  • tee off
  • tee on
  • tee time
  • tee up
Translations

Verb

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)

  1. (golf) To place a ball on a tee
Synonyms
  • tee up

References

Etymology 3

From Burmese ထီး (hti:, “umbrella”).

Noun

tee (plural tees)

  1. A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries.
References
  • Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “tee”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

See also

Anagrams

  • EET

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch thee (in the past commonly spelled tee).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɪə̯/

Noun

tee (uncountable)

  1. tea

Derived terms

  • rooibostee
  • teekoppie

Dutch

Noun

tee m (plural teeën, diminutive teetje n)

  1. Obsolete spelling of thee.

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *tee. Cognate with Finnish tie.

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

  1. road, way
Declension
Derived terms
  • kiirtee
  • maantee
  • raudtee
  • umbtee
  • kruusatee

Etymology 2

From German Tee, ultimately from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

  1. tea
Declension
Derived terms
  • liivatee

Etymology 3

Noun

tee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

Etymology 4

Verb

tee

  1. Second-person singular imperative form of tegema.
  2. Present connegative form of tegema.

Finnish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Swedish te, itself from Dutch thee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈt̪e̞ː]
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Hyphenation(key): tee

Noun

tee

  1. (uncountable) tea (dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis)
  2. (uncountable) tea (drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water)
    Synonyms: (dialectal) saikka, tsaikka, tsaikku, tsaiju, tsaju, tsaikka, tsaikku, tsaju, tsaiju (dialectal)
  3. (countable) tea (variety of the tea plant)
    Synonym: teelaatu
  4. (uncountable, by extension) tea (any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants)
    Synonym: juoma
    yrttitee ― herbal tea
    kamomillatee ― camomile tea
    minttutee ― mint tea
  5. (countable) tea, cup of tea (cup of any one of these drinks)
    Synonyms: teekupillinen, kuppi teetä
Usage notes

As the plural forms are quite rarely used and as they, with the exception of nominative, look the same as the plural forms of tie (“road”), it may be advisable to substitute a more precise synonym for the word tee in those cases.

Declension
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “tee”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
  • tee on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia fi

Etymology 2

From Latin tē.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈt̪e̞ː]
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Hyphenation(key): tee

Noun

tee

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.
Declension

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteːˣ/, [ˈt̪e̞ː(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Hyphenation(key): tee

Verb

tee

  1. inflection of tehdä:
    1. present indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present imperative connegative

Anagrams

  • eet

French

Pronunciation

Noun

tee m (plural tees)

  1. (sports) tee

Further reading

  • “tee”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hunsrik

Article

tee

  1. Wiesemann spelling of där

Ingrian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *tee, from Proto-Finno-Permic *teje. Cognates include Finnish tie and Estonian tee.

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈteː]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈte̝ː]
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Hyphenation: tee

Noun

tee

  1. street
  2. way, path
Declension
Synonyms
  • (street): uulitsa, katu
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈteː]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈte̝ː]
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Hyphenation: tee

Verb

tee

  1. inflection of tehä:
    1. present indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. second-person singular imperative connegative

References

  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[4], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 66
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 583

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-West Germanic *taihā.

Noun

têe f

  1. toe

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: teen (plural reanalysed as singular)
  • Limburgish: tieën (plural reanalysed as singular)

Further reading

  • “tee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “tee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Nafaanra

Noun

tee

  1. termite mound

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English tee.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Homophone: ti

Noun

tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-er, definite plural tee-ene)

  1. (golf) tee
  2. (golf) peg

References

  • “tee” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English tee.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Homophone: ti

Noun

tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-ar, definite plural tee-ane)

  1. (golf) tee
  2. (golf) peg

References

  • “tee” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • ete

Old Irish

Adjective

teë

  1. Alternative spelling of té

Mutation

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English tee.

Noun

tee c or n

  1. (golf) tee, teeing ground (area from which the first shot on a hole is hit)
    Synonym: utslagsplats
  2. (curling) tee (center of a curling target)

Usage notes

Uninflected.

See also

  • peg
  • slå ut (“tee off”)
  • utslag (“tee shot”)

References

  • tee in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • tee in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • tee in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Termanu

Etymology

Akin to Tetum to'o.

Verb

tee

  1. to come, to arrive

Ternate

Etymology

Likely from Malay teh, from Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [teː]

Noun

tee

  1. tea

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tetum

Etymology

See the Tetum noun teen.

Verb

tee

  1. to defecate, to excrete

Tîrî

Noun

tee

  1. tea

References

  • Midori Osumi, Tinrin Grammar

Võro

Noun

tee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee.

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈteː]
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Hyphenation: tee

Noun

tee

  1. way, road

Inflection

References

  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowing from Dutch thee, from Malay teh, from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /teː/

Noun

tee c (no plural)

  1. tea

Further reading

  • “tee”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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