pompe

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

pompe f (plural pompes)

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

• → Rade: pom
• → Vietnamese: bơm

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”).

pompe f (plural pompes)

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

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

pompe f (plural pompes)

1. (France, slang) shoe

• soulier, chaussure, (informal) godasse, (informal) grole

• “pompe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

pompe f

1. plural of pompa

Borrowed from French pompe.

pompe f (plural pompes)

1. (cycling, etc.) pump

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

1. extravagant ceremony; pomp