pirouette

See also: Pirouette and pirouetté

English

WOTD – 6 February 2007

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French pirouette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɪ.ɹʊˈɛt/, /ˌpɪ.ɹuːˈɛt/
• IPA^(key): /ˌpɪ.ɹəˈwɛt/, /ˌpɪ.ɹuːˈɛt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

pirouette (plural pirouettes)

1. A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing, primarily in ballet.
2. The whirling about of a horse.

Translations

whirling or turning on the toes

• Armenian: պիրուետ (hy) (piruet), ոտնապտույտ (hy) (otnaptuyt)
• Danish: piruet c
• Finnish: piruetti
• French: pirouette (fr) f
• German: Pirouette (de) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: piruett m

  Nynorsk: piruett m

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• Polish: piruet (pl) m
• Portuguese: pirueta f
• Romanian: piruetă (ro) f
• Russian: пируэ́т (ru) m (piruét)
• Swedish: piruett (sv) c

the whirling about of a horse

• Danish: piruet c
• Finnish: piruetti
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: piruett m

  Nynorsk: piruett m

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• Portuguese: pirueta f
• Swedish: piruett (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} Pirouette (de) f
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Verb

1. (intransitive) To perform a pirouette; to whirl on the toes, like a dancer.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:

     I came down like a sack of coals. The pulse was rapid, the blood pressure high, and for awhile the Blue Room pirouetted about me like an adagio dancer.

Translations

to perform a pirouette

• Finnish: tehdä piruetti
• Polish: zakręcić piruet
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• Portuguese: fazer (uma) pirueta

Further reading

• Glossary of ballet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pirouette (dressage) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French pirouette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpi.ruˈɛ.tə/
• Hyphenation: pi‧rou‧et‧te
• Rhymes: -ɛtə

Noun

pirouette f (plural pirouettes or pirouetten)

1. pirouette

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French

Etymology

Alteration of pirouelle, perhaps after girouette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.ʁwɛt/

• Audio:

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Noun

pirouette f (plural pirouettes)

1. A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing.
2. (sports, equestrians) A whirling volt movement made by a horse.

Verb

pirouette

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

Further reading

• Vocabulaire de la danse classique on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Descendants

• Russian: пируэ́т m (piruét)