vélocipède
See also: velocipede, velocipède, and velocípede
French
A velocipede.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ve.lɔ.si.pɛd/
- Hyphenation: vé‧lo‧ci‧pède
Etymology 1
(1804) A learned compound from Latin vēlōx, vēlōcis (“rapid, prompt”) + pēs, pedis (“foot”). Compare vélocifère.
Noun
vélocipède m (plural vélocipèdes)
- (historical) a velocipede
- (obsolete) a bicycle
Synonyms
- bicyclette
- draisienne, draisine
- vélo
Derived terms
- vélo
Descendants
- → Belarusian: веласіпе́д (vjelasipjéd)
- → Bulgarian: велосипе́д (velosipéd)
- → Catalan: velocípede
- → Danish: væltepeter
- → English: velocipede
- → Finnish: velosipedi
- → Georgian: ველოსიპედი (velosiṗedi)
- → German: Veloziped
- → Indonesian: sepeda
- → Japanese: ベロシペード (beroshipēdo), ベロチペード (berochipēdo)
- → Latvian: velosipēds
- → Macedonian: велосипед (velosiped)
- → Polish: welocyped
- → Russian: велосипе́д (velosipéd), велосипе́дъ (velosipéd)
- → Azerbaijani: velosiped
- → Belarusian: веласіпе́д (vjelasipjéd)
- → Ingrian: velosipeda
- → Kazakh: велосипед (velosiped)
- → Kildin Sami: веласипед (vʹelasipʹed)
- → Kyrgyz: велосипед (velosiped)
- → Turkmen: welosiped
- → Tatar: велосипед (welosiped)
- → Uyghur: ۋەلسىپىت (welsipit)
- → Ukrainian: велосипе́д (velosypéd)
- → Uzbek: velosiped
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: велосѝпе̄д
- Latin: velosìpēd
- → Spanish: velocípedo
- → Ukrainian: велосипе́д (velosypéd)
- → Yiddish: וועלאָסיפּעד (velosiped)
Verb
vélocipède
- inflection of vélocipéder:
- first/third-person singular indicative/subjunctive present
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “vélocipède”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.