guillotine

See also: Guillotine and guillotiné

English

The official Luxembourg guillotine, last used 1821

Etymology

From French guillotine, after Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, who proposed its use for capital punishment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪl.ə.tiːn/, /ˈɡiː.ə.tiːn/

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

guillotine (plural guillotines)

1. A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade.
2. A device used for cutting stacks of paper to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged blade attached to a flat platform.
3. (politics, informal) A cloture; a motion that debate be ended and a vote taken.
4. A surgical instrument for cutting the tonsils.

Derived terms

• Hume's guillotine

Translations

machine used for capital punishment

• Arabic: مِقْصَلَة f (miqṣala)

  Egyptian Arabic: جيلوتين

• Armenian: գիլյոտին (hy) (gilyotin), կառափնատ (hy) (kaṙapʻnat)
• Azerbaijani: gilyotin
• Catalan: guillotina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 斷頭台／断头台 (dyun⁶ tau⁴ toi⁴)

  Mandarin: 斷頭台／断头台 (zh) (duàntóutái), 断头台 (zh) (duàntóutái)

• Czech: gilotina (cs) f
• Danish: guillotine c
• Dutch: guillotine (nl) f, valbijl (nl) f
• Esperanto: gilotino
• Finnish: giljotiini (fi)
• French: guillotine (fr) f
• Georgian: გილიოტინა (gilioṭina)
• German: Guillotine (de) f, Fallbeil (de) n
• Greek: καρμανιόλα (el) f (karmanióla)
• Hebrew: גִּילְיוֹטִינָה f (giliotína)
• Hungarian: nyaktiló, guillotine (hu)
• Ido: gilotino (io)
• Interlingua: guillotina
• Italian: ghigliottina (it) f
• Japanese: ギロチン (girochin), 断頭台 (だんとうだい, dantōdai)
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• Kurdish: ,
• Ladino: giyotina f
• Malay: gilotin
• Norman: dgilliotinne f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: giljotin m

  Nynorsk: giljotin m

• Persian: گیوتین (fa)
• Polish: gilotyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: guilhotina (pt) f
• Romanian: ghilotină (ro) f
• Russian: гильоти́на (ru) f (gilʹotína)
• Slovene: giljotina (sl) f
• Spanish: guillotina (es) f
• Swedish: giljotin (sv) c
• Tagalog: gilyotina
• Tajik: гилйотина (gilyotina)
• Turkish: giyotin (tr)
• Ukrainian: гільйотина (hilʹjotyna)
• Venetian: ghiƚotina (vec) f
• Vietnamese: máy chém (vi), đoạn đầu đài
• Volapük: gilyoten
• Yiddish: גיליאָטין f (gilyotin)

device that cuts paper

• Catalan: guillotina (ca)
• Finnish: paperileikkuri, giljotiini (fi)
• French: massicot (fr) m
• German: Papierschneider m
• Greek: μαχαίρι (el) n (machaíri)
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• Hungarian: síkvágó
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjæremaskin m

• Portuguese: guilhotina (pt) f
• Spanish: guillotina (es) f

Verb

1. (transitive) To execute, cut or cut short (a person, a stack of paper or a debate) by use of a guillotine.
2. (transitive) To end discussion on a parliamentary bill by invoking cloture.

Translations

execute by use of a guillotine

• Catalan: guillotinar (ca)
• French: guillotiner (fr)
• German: guillotinieren (de)
• Greek: αποκεφαλίζω (el) (apokefalízo)
• Italian: ghigliottinare (it)
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• Polish: gilotynować impf, zgilotynować pf
• Romanian: ghilotina (ro)
• Russian: казни́ть на гильоти́не impf or pf (kaznítʹ na gilʹotíne), гильотини́ровать (ru) impf or pf (gilʹotinírovatʹ)
• Spanish: guillotinar (es)
• Volapük: gilyotenön

Further reading

• guillotine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French guillotine. Named after Joseph-Ignace Guillotin. First attested in the early 1790s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɡi.oːˈti.nə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: guil‧lo‧ti‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

Noun

guillotine f (plural guillotines, diminutive guillotinetje n)

1. guillotine

   Synonym: valbijl

Derived terms

• guillotineren

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French

Etymology

After Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, who proposed its use for capital punishment. The surname is a diminutive of Guillot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡi.jɔ.tin/

• Audio:

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Noun

guillotine f (plural guillotines)

1. guillotine (machine)

Derived terms

• guillotiner (“behead with a guillotine”)
• fenêtre à guillotine (“box sash window”)

Verb

guillotine

1. first-person singular present indicative of guillotiner
2. third-person singular present indicative of guillotiner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of guillotiner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of guillotiner
5. second-person singular imperative of guillotiner

Further reading

• “guillotine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Indonesian

Etymology

From French guillotine, Guillot. After Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, who proposed its use for capital punishment.

Noun

guillotine (first-person possessive guillotineku, second-person possessive guillotinemu, third-person possessive guillotinenya)

1. guillotine (machine).

Further reading

• “guillotine” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Spanish

Verb

guillotine

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of guillotinar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of guillotinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of guillotinar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of guillotinar.