vélocipède

See also: velocipede, velocipède, and velocípede

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ve.lɔ.si.pɛd/
Hyphenation: vé‧lo‧ci‧pède

Etymology 1

(1804) A learned compound from Latin vēlōcem (“rapid, prompt”) + pēs, pedis (“foot”). Compare vélocifère.

Noun

vélocipède m (plural vélocipèdes)

(historical) a velocipede
(obsolete) a bicycle

Synonyms

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) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
- → Azerbaijani: velosiped
- → Belarusian: веласіпе́д (vjelasipjéd)
- → Ingrian: velosipeda
- → Kazakh: велосипед (velosiped)
- → Kildin Sami: веласипед (vjelasipjed)
- → Kyrgyz: велосипед (velosiped)
- → Turkmen: welosiped
- → Tatar: велосипед (welosiped), сәпит (säpit)
- → Uyghur: ۋەلسىپىت (welsipit)
- → Ukrainian: велосипе́д (velosypéd)
- → Uzbek: velosiped
→ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: велосѝпе̄д
- Latin script: velosìpēd
→ Spanish: velocípedo
→ Turkish: velespit
→ Ukrainian: велосипе́д (velosypéd)
→ Yiddish: וועלאָסיפּעד (velosiped)

Etymology 2

Verb

vélocipède

inflection of vélocipéder:
1. first/third-person singular indicative/subjunctive present
2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

“vélocipède”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.