piolet

Borrowed from French piolet, or its source, Franco-Provençal piolet (“small axe”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpjəʊ.leɪ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.ə.leɪ/

piolet (plural piolets)

1. (climbing) An ice axe/ice ax.

• Polite, polite, topile

Borrowed from Franco-Provençal piolèt (“small axe”), from piôla, from Piedmontese piòla, from Vulgar Latin *happia, from Frankish *happjā.

• IPA^(key): /pjɔ.lɛ/

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piolet m (plural piolets)

1. (climbing) ice axe, piolet

• → English: piolet
• → Spanish: piolet
• → Romanian: piolet

• pic à glace

• “piolet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pilote, piloté

Borrowed from French piolet.

piolet m (plural pioleți)

1. (climbing) piolet

piolet m (plural piolets)

1. (climbing) piolet, ice ax

• “piolet”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024