vélocipède

See also: velocipede, velocipède, and velocípede

French

A velocipede.

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)

1. (historical) a velocipede
2. (obsolete) a bicycle

Synonyms

• bicyclette
• draisienne, draisine
• vélo

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)
  • → Uyghur: ۋەلسىپىت (welsipit)
  • → Ukrainian: велосипе́д (velosypéd)
  • → Uzbek: velosiped
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: велосѝпе̄д
  • Latin script: velosìpēd
• → Spanish: velocípedo
• → Ukrainian: велосипе́д (velosypéd)
• → Yiddish: וועלאָסיפּעד (velosiped)

Etymology 2

Verb

vélocipède

1. 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.