bidet

See also: Bidet

English
A bidet.

Etymology

From French bidet.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbiːdeɪ/
    • Rhymes: -iːdeɪ
    • Homophone: b-day
  • (US) IPA(key): /bɪˈdeɪ/
    • Audio (US)(file)
    • Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

bidet (plural bidets)

  1. A low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus.
  2. (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

Translations

Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

From French bidet.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈbɪdɛt]
  • Hyphenation: bi‧det

Noun

bidet m inan

  1. bidet

Declension
Declension of bidet
singular plural
nominative bidet bidety
genitive bidetu bidetů
dative bidetu bidetům
accusative bidet bidety
vocative bidete bidety
locative bidetu bidetech
instrumental bidetem bidety

Further reading
  • bidet in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • bidet in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

From bider (“to trot”), of unknown ultimate origin. Possibly from Proto-Celtic *bid (“small”), related to Irish bídeach (“small”) and 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]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bi.dɛ/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

bidet m (plural bidets)

  1. pony, small horse
  2. bidet

Descendants
  • → Polish: bidet
  • → Portuguese: bidê, bidé
  • → English: bidet (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “bidetto”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
  2. MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “bidet”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page biteag
  3. “bidet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  4. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “bidet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

Anagrams

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

bidet m (plural bidets)

  1. (Jersey) pony
  2. (Jersey) bidet

Synonyms

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bidet. First attested in 1819.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbi.dɛt/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -idɛt
  • Syllabification: bi‧det

Noun

bidet m inan (diminutive bidecik)

  1. bidet (low-mounted plumbing fixture for cleaning the genitalia and anus)

Declension
Declension of bidet
singular plural
nominative bidet bidety
genitive bidetu bidetów
dative bidetowi bidetom
accusative bidet bidety
instrumental bidetem bidetami
locative bidecie bidetach
vocative bidecie bidety

Derived terms
adjective

References
  1. Kuryer Litewski‎, issue 92, 1819, page 3

Further reading
  • bidet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • bidet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovak

Etymology

From French bidet.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈbidet]

Noun

bidet m (genitive singular bidetu, nominative plural bidety, genitive plural bidetov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. bidet

Declension
Declension of bidet
singular plural
nominative bidet bidety
genitive bidetu bidetov
dative bidetu bidetom
accusative bidet bidety
locative bidete bidetoch
instrumental bidetom bidetmi

References
  • bidet in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Noun

bidet m (plural bidets)

  1. Alternative form of bidé
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