Piedmont

See also: piedmont

English

Etymology

Derived from Italian Piemonte (“mountain foot”), from Medieval Latin Pedemontium, Pedemontis, from Latin ad pedem montium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːdmɒnt/

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• Homophone: piedmont

Proper noun

Piedmont

2. An administrative region in the north of Italy.
3. The region of the eastern US between the Appalachian mountains and the coastal plain, extending from eastern Alabama to northern New Jersey.
4. A city in Alameda County, California, United States.

Meronyms

administrative region of Italy

• Alessandria
• Asti
• Biella
• Cuneo
• Novara
• Turin
• Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
• Vercelli

 

Derived terms

• Piedmont blues

Translations

region of Italy

• Arabic: بييمونتي
• Armenian: Պիեմոնտ (Piemont)
• Azerbaijani: Pyemont
• Bulgarian: Пиемо́нт m (Piemónt)
• Catalan: Piemont m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皮埃蒙特 (Pí'āiméngtè)

• Czech: Piemont
• Danish: Piemonte
• Dutch: Piëmont n
• Emilian: Piemånt m
• Finnish: Piemonte
• Franco-Provençal: Piemont
• French: Piémont (fr) m
• Friulian: Piemont
• Galician: Piemonte
• Georgian: პიემონტი (ṗiemonṭi)
• German: Piemont (de) n
• Greek: Πεδεμόντιο (el) n (Pedemóntio)
• Hebrew: פִּיֶימוֹנְטֶה
• Hungarian: Piemont (hu)
• Icelandic: Fjallaland m
• Ido: Piemont (io)
• Irish: Píodmant
• Italian: Piemonte (it) m
• Japanese: ピエモンテ (Piemonte)
• Korean: 피에몬테 주 (piemonte ju)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: Pedemontium n
• Latvian: Pjemonta
• Ligurian: Piemonte
• Lithuanian: Pjemontas
• Lombard: Piemont (lmo) m
• Neapolitan: Piemunte
• Occitan: Piemont (oc) m
• Piedmontese: Piemont m
• Polish: Piemont (pl) m
• Portuguese: Piemonte m
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: Piemont n
• Romansch: Piemont
• Russian: Пьемо́нт m (Pʹjemónt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Пијѐмонт m

  Latin: Pijèmont (sh) m

• Spanish: Piamonte (es) m
• Swedish: Piemonte
• Turkish: Piyemonte
• Ukrainian: П'ємо́нт m (Pʺjemónt)
• Venetian: Piemonte m
• Walloon: Pîmont (wa) m
• West Frisian: Piëmont n

See also

• (administrative regions of Italy) regions of Italy; Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Sardinia, Sicily, Trentino-Alto Adige, Tuscany, Umbria, Valle d'Aosta, Veneto ^{(Category: en:Administrative regions of Italy)}

Further reading

• Piedmont on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Piedmont (United States) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

The name of the municipality is derived from piémont (“foothill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pje.mɔ̃/
• Hyphenation: Pied‧mont
• Rhymes: -ɔ̃
• Homophone: piémont

Proper noun

Piedmont m

1. A municipality of Les Pays-d'en-Haut, Laurentides, Quebec, Canada

Derived terms

• piedmontais
• Piedmontais
• Piedmontaise