pédale

See also: pedale, Pedale, and pédalé

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.dal/

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian pedale, from Latin pedālis.

Noun

pédale f (plural pédales)

1. pedal (of bicycle)
2. (music) pedal (of piano, organ etc.)

Derived terms

• pédalier
• mettre la pédale douce
• pédale d'embrayage
• pédale wha wha
• perdre les pédales

Descendants

• → Norman: pédale
• → Romanian: pedală
• → Dutch: pedaal
• → English: pedal
• → Ottoman Turkish: په‌دال (pedal)
  • Turkish: pedal
• → Swedish: pedal
  • → Finnish: pedaali

Etymology 2

Alteration of pédé, probably under the influence of the above word.

Noun

pédale f (plural pédales)

1. (offensive) queer, homo (homosexual man)
   • 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 85:

     Tu vois les deux derrière le comptoir ? le grand Noir efféminé et la petite pédale rebeue : à Belleville, se promener comme ça, je respecte. You see those two behind the counter? The big effeminate black guy and the little sand nigger faggot: in Belleville, walking around like that, I respect it.

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Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pédale

1. inflection of pédaler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French pédale.

Noun

pédale f (plural pédales)

1. (Jersey) pedal

Derived terms

• chanolle ès pédales (“pedal crank”)
• êsseu ès pédales (“pedal crank axle”)
• pédal'lie (“cycling”)