pyramidon
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From pyramid + -on (after accordion, harmonicon etc.).
Noun edit
pyramidon (plural pyramidons)
- (music) An organ stop having wooden pipes in the form of an inverted pyramid, giving very deep notes somewhat like those of a stopped diapason. [from 19th c.]
Etymology 2 edit
From German Pyramidon, corresponding to pyr(azolone) + amid(e) + -on.
Noun edit
pyramidon (uncountable)
- (pharmacology) A yellowish-white powder used as an antipyretic. [from 19th c.]
Synonyms edit
French edit
Noun edit
pyramidon m (uncountable)
- (medicine, now rare) pyramidon
- 1921, Marcel Proust, Le Côté de Guermantes:
- « Elle me donne tous les jours de tels maux de tête que je suis obligée de prendre chaque fois un cachet de pyramidon. »
- "She gives me such bad headaches every day that I have to take a pyramidon tablet every time."
References edit
- “pyramidon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.