pedicure

See also: pédicure

English

Etymology

From French pédicure, from Latin pes (“foot”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.dɪ.kjʊɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

pedicure (plural pedicures)

1. A cosmetic treatment for the feet and toenails.

   Coordinate terms: mani, manicure

2. (dated) A pedicurist.

Derived terms

• fish pedicure
• French pedicure
• mani-pedi
• pawdicure
• pedi
• pedicurism

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ped- (0 c, 69 e)

Translations

superficial cosmetic treatment of the feet and toenails

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: بدكير m (badikēr)

• Bulgarian: педикюр (bg) m (pedikjur)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 修腳甲 / 修脚甲 (xiūjiǎojiǎ), 修腳 / 修脚 (zh) (xiūjiǎo), 足療 / 足疗 (zh) (zúliáo)

• Czech: pedikúra (cs) f
• Danish: fodpleje
• Estonian: pediküür
• Finnish: pedikyyri (fi)
• French: pédicure (fr) f
• German: Pediküre (de) f, Fußpflege (de) f
• Greek: πεντικιούρ (el) n (pentikioúr)
• Hungarian: pedikűr (hu)
• Ido: pedikuro (io)
• Indonesian: pedikur (id)
• Japanese: ペディキュア (ja) (pedikyua)
• Korean: 페디큐어 (pedikyueo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pedikyr m, fotpleie m or f

  Nynorsk: pedikyr m, fotpleie f

• Persian: پدیکور (pedikur)
• Polish: pedicure (pl) m, pedikiur m
• Portuguese: pedicure (pt) f
• Russian: педикю́р (ru) m (pedikjúr)
• Spanish: pedicura (es) f, pediquiur m (Latin America), pedicure m
• Swedish: pedikyr (sv), fotvård c
• Vietnamese: sửa móng chân

Verb

pedicure (third-person singular simple present pedicures, present participle pedicuring, simple past and past participle pedicured)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To apply such a treatment to the feet.

Derived terms

• unpedicured

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “pedicure”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe.diˈku.re/
• Rhymes: -ure
• Hyphenation: pe‧di‧cù‧re

Noun

pedicure f (invariable)

1. pedicure

Polish

Alternative forms

• pedikiur

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French pédicure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛ.diˈkir/, /pɛ.diˈkjur/, /pɛˈdi.kjur/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ir, -ur, -ikjur
• Syllabification: pe‧di‧cure

Noun

pedicure m inan

1. pedicure (cosmetic treatment for the feet and toenails)

Declension

Declension of pedicure

	singular	plural
nominative	pedicure	pedicure'y
genitive	pedicure'u	pedicure'ów
dative	pedicure'owi	pedicure'om
accusative	pedicure	pedicure'y
instrumental	pedicure'em	pedicure'ami
locative	pedicurze	pedicure'ach
vocative	pedicurze	pedicure'y

Derived terms

nouns

• pedicurzysta
• pedicurzystka

Further reading

• pedicure in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pedicure in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

pedicure f (plural pedicures)

1. pedicure (cosmetic treatment of the feet and toenails)
2. a professional who provides pedicure

Further reading

• “pedicure”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pedicure”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpedikjuɾ/ [ˈpe.ð̞i.kjuɾ]
  • Rhymes: -edikjuɾ
• IPA^(key): /pediˈkjuɾ/ [pe.ð̞iˈkjuɾ]
  • Rhymes: -uɾ
• Syllabification: pe‧di‧cu‧re

Noun

pedicure m (plural pedicures)

1. alternative form of pedicura

Further reading

• “pedicure”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010