pívot

Borrowed from French pivot.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpibot/ [ˈpi.β̞ot̪]
• Rhymes: -ibot
• Syllabification: pí‧vot

pívot m or f by sense (plural pívots)

1. (basketball) center (US, CA), centre (UK) (the player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket)

   Synonym: pivote

• “pívot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “pívot” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.