Tesla

See also: tesla

English

Nikola Tesla.

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian Tesla/Тесла, from Proto-Slavic *tesla. Cognate with German Dechsel, Dutch dissel, Russian тесло́ (tesló), Polish ciosła, Latin tēla. Doublet of tela and toile.

Proper noun

Tesla (plural Teslas)

1. A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
2. Inventor and physicist Nikola Tesla (1856–1943).
3. (automotive) Tesla, Inc.: a battery electric vehicle (BEV) automaker founded in 2003.

Derived terms

• Teslaphile
• Tesla-swap
• Tesla-swapped
• tesla (T)
• T (tesla)

 

Translations

surname

• Bulgarian: Те́сла m or f (Tésla)
• Macedonian: Тесла m or f (Tesla)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Croatian: Tesla

  Serbian: Тесла

Anagrams

• setal, steal, ETLAs, telas, Astle, tales, least, salet, slate, Teals, stela, astel, Slate, Sleat, lates, leats, 'least, laste, teals, stale, taels

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

Tesla n (strong, genitive Teslas, plural Tesla)

1. tesla

Declension

Declension of Tesla [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Tesla	die	Tesla
genitive	eines	des	Teslas	der	Tesla
dative	einem	dem	Tesla	den	Tesla
accusative	ein	das	Tesla	die	Tesla

Further reading

• “Tesla” in Duden online

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian tȅsla (“adze”), from Proto-Slavic *tesla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /têsla/

Proper noun

Tȅsla m (Cyrillic spelling Те̏сла)

1. a surname. (Tesla)

Derived terms

• T (tesla, an SI unit)
• tesla (T, an SI unit)