pompe
See also: pompé
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pompe
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle French, from Middle Dutch pompe (“device for raising water, pump”). Related to Middle Low German pumpe (“a pump”). More at pump.
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pompe f (plural pompes)
- pump
- (gymnastics) push-up
- (music) Style of strumming, used especially in gypsy jazz
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle French, from Old French pompe (“extravagant ceremony, pomp”), from Latin pompa (“display, procession, parade”), from Ancient Greek πομπή (pompḗ, “procession, send-off”), from πέμπω (pémpō, “to send”).
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pompe f (plural pompes)
- a solemn procession
- pomp, vainglory
- style, class
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Etymology 3 edit
From English pump (“a shoe", originally, "a low shoe without fasteners”), of uncertain origin.
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pompe f (plural pompes)
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Further reading edit
- “pompe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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pompe f
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pompe f (plural pompes)
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pompe oblique singular, f (oblique plural pompes, nominative singular pompe, nominative plural pompes)
- extravagant ceremony; pomp