teleprompter

English

Etymology

From tele- +‎ prompter; genericized trademark, originally styled TelePrompTer.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛləˌpɹɑmptəɹ/

Noun

teleprompter (plural teleprompters)

1. A device placed near or on a television camera that displays scrolling text, allowing a person to read a script while appearing to speak spontaneously to the camera.
   • 1984 April 20, Berkeley Breathed, Bloom County‎^[1] (comic):

     Ahem ... GRBLB BLABT UNT MIT SPEEB!! OOT PIFFOO BLABOO... [pause] Would someone please give the Teleprompter a swift kick...

   • 2009 March 6, Mark Knoller, CBS News‎^[2]:

     He was more at ease in reading his speech off the dual screens of a teleprompter than looking up and down at a speech text on his lectern.

Synonyms

• autocue

Derived terms

• teleprompterless

Translations

device that displays scrolling text

• Arabic: شَاشَة الْقِرَاءَة f (šāšat al-qirāʔa)
• Catalan: teleprompter m, apuntador òptic m, teleapuntador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 提字器 (tízìqì)

• Finnish: teleprompteri (fi)
• French: prompteur (fr) m, télésouffleur (fr) m, téléprompteur (fr)
• German: Prompter m
• Hungarian: súgógép (hu)
• Indonesian: pengial baca, layar baca (id) (literally “reading screen”)
• Irish: uathleideoir m
• Italian: gobbo elettronico (it) m, suggeritore elettronico m
• Japanese: プロンプター (puronputā), テレプロンプター (terepuronputā)
• Korean: 텔레프롬프터 (tellepeurompeuteo)
• Malay: telepanduan
• Polish: prompter (pl) m
• Portuguese: teleponto m, teleprompter (pt) m
• Russian: телесуфлёр (ru) m (telesufljór), телепро́мптер (ru) m (teleprómptɛr), телепро́мтер m (teleprómtɛr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: блѐсиметар m

  Roman: blèsimetar (sh) m

• Spanish: teleprónter m, teleapuntador m, autocue m
• Swedish: teleprompter (sv) c
• Ukrainian: суфле́р m (suflér)
• Welsh: teleweinydd m

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English teleprompter.

Noun

teleprompter m (plural teleprompters or teleprompter)

1. teleprompter