Tela
noun
a seaport in N Honduras.
Tela
American
[te-lah]
/ ˈtɛ lɑ /
noun
tela
British
/ ˈtiːlə /
noun
Etymology
Origin of tela
from New Latin, from Latin: a web
Example Sentences
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That has not changed since the events over the weekend, the department’s communications manager Tela Goodwin Mange told The Times in an email Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2024
Tela should feel at home in the team as he will play alongside scrumhalf Frank Lomani, a teammate with the Fijian Drua in Super Rugby.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
After doing research, Ms. Tela, who lives near Seattle, realized that “I wasn’t the only one going through this battle with them.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
“I hope that this act goes smoothly, and that the results are presented without any surprises,” Carvalho said as he cast his vote, according to the Tela Non newspaper.
From Reuters ● Sep. 5, 2021
We arrived at Tela at nine o'clock in the evening, being a journey of five hours.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Jackson, James Grey
His "glittering shafts" are of course the sunbeams, the "lucida tela diei" of Lucretius.
From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Carruthers, Robert
Ex. nani etsi ando, I am in the house; nuni bulitsi gatsi, thou wilt go to the garden; naga Mambutsi l’a tela, I have come here from Mambo.
From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Williamson, Robert Wood
The poem recalls the words of Anchises on beholding the spirits of Julius and Pompey: Tuque prior, tu parce, genus qui ducis Olympo Proice tela manu, sanguis meus.
From Vergil A Biography by Frank, Tenney
It concludes by praying Robigo to direct her strength and attention to other objects, gladios et tela nocentia; but this is the poet's fancy.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
The toils are Fr. toiles, lit. cloths, Lat. tela, the nets put round a thicket to prevent the game from escaping.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
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