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Old 15-January-2009, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Arneb View Post
Telorama would be the most correct form, I think. The inflections for the Greek word for to see (horan) is weird: the Future is opsomai, from which optics etc. derive, and a form of simple past is eidon - leading to idea, ideal, etc. I don't know why the future became the model for so many words we use, but I don't think there is a reason, when creating new words, not to use the present.
FWIW, the modern Greek is teleorase (or tileorasi if we're feeling itacistic).
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