These days, my son, who is now an extremely inquisitive toddler, can’t keep his hands off the telecomando (remote control) for the television. He’s so obsessed that I might have to buy him one of his own!
Telecomando is formed of two parts: the prefix tele- which means “at or over a long distance” and the noun comando (command, order).
Telecomando is a masculine noun whose plural form is telecomandi.
il telecomando
the remote control
un telecomando
a remote control
i telecomandi
the remote controls
dei telecomandi
(some) remote controls
Non trovo più il telecomando della TV. – Guarda sotto al divano!
I can’t find the TV remote. – Check under the sofa!
When you think of a telecomando, two common devices that most likely pop to mind are the telecomando del televisore / della TV (TV remote) and the telecomando per cancelli / del cancello (remote control for gates).
Closely related to this noun is the verb telecomandare which means to operate by remote control.
Heather Broster is a graduate with honours in linguistics from the University of Western Ontario. She is an aspiring polyglot, proficient in English and Italian, as well as Japanese, Welsh, and French to varying degrees of fluency. Originally from Toronto, Heather has resided in various countries, notably Italy for a period of six years. Her primary focus lies in the fields of language acquisition, education, and bilingual instruction.
