vitesse
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French vistece. By surface analysis, vite + -esse.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /vi.tɛs/
Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Paris)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛs
Noun
[edit]vitesse f (plural vitesses)
- speed
- (automotive) gear
- à deux vitesses ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- boîte de vitesses ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- en quatrième vitesse ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- passer à la vitesse supérieure ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Haitian Creole: vitès
- Mauritian Creole: vites
- → Luxembourgish: Vitesse
- → Romanian: viteză
- → Turkish: vites
Further reading
[edit]- “vitesse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
[edit]Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From vitet (“to have someone carry, transport, or take something (away); to have something carried, transported, or taken (away)”) + -je (personal suffix), from the causative of the verb visz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]vitesse
- third-person singular subjunctive present definite of vitet
- Vitesse el a szemetét! ― Have your trash/garbage taken away! (formal conjugation) or Let him/her have their trash taken away!
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