bidet
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bidet (plural bidets)
- A low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus.
- (obsolete) A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.
- 1631, Ben Jonson, Chloridia:
- For joy of which I will return to myself, mount my bidet in a dance
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bidet m inan
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bider + -et. From bider (“to trot”), of unknown ultimate origin. Possibly related to Medieval Italian bidetto (“small horse”),[1] itself probably related to Proto-Germanic *bitiz;[2] or, possibly from a lost Middle French rabider (“go quickly, violently”), a descendant of Latin rabidus (“furious, fierce”), with loss of the initial prefix.[3]
Modern sense derives from analogy with the straddling of a bidet and the straddling of a small horse.[4]
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bidet m (plural bidets)
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- → Greek: μπιντές (bintés)
- → Polish: bidet
- → Portuguese: bidê, bidé
- → English: bidet (see there for further descendants)
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- ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “bidetto”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
- ^ MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “bidet”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page biteag
- ^ “bidet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “bidet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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- “bidet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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bidet m (plural bidets)
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- (pony): pônîn, p'tit j'va
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Borrowed from French bidet. First attested in 1819.[1]
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bidet m inan (diminutive bidecik)
- bidet (low-mounted plumbing fixture for cleaning the genitalia and anus)
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bidet m inan (genitive singular bidetu, nominative plural bidety, genitive plural bidetov, declension pattern of dub)
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- “bidet”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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bidet m (plural bidets)
- Alternative form of bidé