Fact 144: What does the word Television literally mean in English?
Fact 144: What does the word Television literally mean in English?
The word television is made up of two words one half of the word is Greek and the other word is Latin, the first word it is made up of is the word tele this word is Greek and the word means distance or far as in telecommunications, distance communications, the word vision is Latin it and this means sight or the ability to see, so the word television literally means far sight or distance seeing.
