pompe

See also: pompé

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔ̃p/
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Etymology 1

From Middle French, from Middle Dutch pompe (“device for raising water, pump”). Related to Middle Low German pumpe (“a pump”). More at pump.

Noun

pompe f (plural pompes)

  1. pump
  2. push-up
  3. (music) Style of strumming, used especially in gypsy jazz.
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Etymology 2

From Middle French, from Old French pompe (“extravagant ceremony, pomp”), from Latin pompa (“display, procession, parade”), from Ancient Greek πομπή (pompḗ, “procession, send-off”), from πέμπω (pémpō, “I send”).

Noun

pompe f (plural pompes)

  1. a solemn procession
  2. pomp, vainglory
  3. style, class

Etymology 3

From English pump (“a shoe", originally, "a low shoe without fasteners”), of uncertain origin.

Noun

pompe f (plural pompes)

  1. (France, slang) shoe
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Italian

Noun

pompe f

  1. plural of pompa

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French pompe.

Noun

pompe f (plural pompes)

  1. (cycling, etc.) pump

Old French

Noun

pompe f (oblique plural pompes, nominative singular pompe, nominative plural pompes)

  1. extravagant ceremony; pomp
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