pedalo

See also: Pedalo, pédalo, and pedalò

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French pédalo, a registered trademark. By surface analysis, pedal +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛdələʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

pedalo (plural pedalos or pedaloes)

1. (UK, nautical) A small boat propelled by pedals that directly turn external paddles, used for recreation.

   Synonyms: pedalboat, (US, Canada, Australia) paddleboat

   • 2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 139:

     It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.

   • 2018 August 16, Marina Hyde, “Sorry to break it to you, far-righters: James Bond is not on your team”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     On the other hand: I’m sorry the sculpture hurt your feelings. But it’s just art. It can’t harm you. You don’t have to like it – not at all – but it’s going to be gone in a month or so, and you can still use the pedalos while it’s there.

Translations

small boat propelled by pedals

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ջրային հեծանիվ (ǰrayin hecaniv)
• Basque: pedalontzi, uretako bizikleta
• Bulgarian: во́дно колело́ n (vódno koleló)
• Catalan: patí de pedals m, velomar m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腳踏船／脚踏船 (jiǎotàchuán)

• Czech: šlapadlo n
• Danish: vandcykel c
• Dutch: waterfiets (nl) f or m, trapboot (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: pedalboato, tretboato
• Finnish: polkuvene
• French: pédalo (fr) m, pédal’eau (fr) m, bateau à pédales m
• German: Tretboot (de) n, (Switzerland) Pedalo (de) n
• Greek: πενταλό (el) n (pentaló), θαλάσσιο ποδήλατο (el) n (thalássio podílato), (informal) ποδήλατο (el) n (podílato)
• Hebrew: סירת פדלים (he) f (sirát pedálim)
• Hungarian: vízibicikli (hu)
• Italian: pedalò (it) m
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 水上自転車 (すいじょうじてんしゃ, suijō jitensha)
• Macedonian: педали́нка f (pedalínka)
• Polish: rower wodny m
• Portuguese: (Brazil) pedalinho m, (Portugal) cisne (pt) m, (Portugal) gaivota (pt) f
• Russian: во́дный велосипе́д m (vódnyj velosipéd), педа́ло n (pedálo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: педа̀лӣна f

  Roman: pedàlīna (sh) f

• Slovene: pedalino n, pedalni čôln m
• Spanish: hidropedal m, velomar m, pedalo m, (colloquial) pedalina f, (colloquial) pedaleta f, (colloquial) patín (es) m
• Swedish: trampbåt c, pedalbåt c
• Turkish: deniz bisikleti
• Ukrainian: во́дний велосипе́д m (vódnyj velosypéd), катамара́н (uk) m (katamarán)
• Vietnamese: thuyền đạp

Anagrams

• opaled

Catalan

Verb

pedalo

1. first-person singular present indicative of pedalar

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin pedalis (“a foot in length”), from pēs (“foot”). Compare French pédale and Italian pedale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [peˈdalo]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: pe‧da‧lo

Noun

pedalo (accusative singular pedalon, plural pedaloj, accusative plural pedalojn)

1. pedal (lever operated by one's foot)

Derived terms

• bremspedalo
• gaspedalo
• kluĉpedalo
• pedali

 

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈda.lo/
• Rhymes: -alo
• Hyphenation: pe‧dà‧lo

Verb

pedalo

1. first-person singular present indicative of pedalare

Portuguese

Verb

pedalo

1. first-person singular present indicative of pedalar