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
And throughout, he navigates his complicated relationship with Tela.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
“We defend total transparency in this electoral act,” Vila Nova said at a voting station in a school in Sao Tome, according to Tela Non.
From Reuters ● Sep. 5, 2021
After arriving in Tapanatepec's main plaza, Evelin Flores, a spunky 7-year-old from Tela, Honduras, set to playing her favorite game of "stylist," combing everyone's hair as she loves to do back home.
From Fox News ● Nov. 1, 2018
I cannot speak too highly of Smith's Tela Vesicatoria.
From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Pye Henry Chavasse
The explanation is that this name has absorbed the medieval Teler and Teller, weaver, ultimately belonging to Lat. tela, a web; — cf. the very common Fr.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
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 Robert Wood Williamson
His "glittering shafts" are of course the sunbeams, the "lucida tela diei" of Lucretius.
From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Robert Carruthers
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 Tenney Frank
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 W. Warde Fowler
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