maillot
English
WOTD – 8 March 2012
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /mæˈjoʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: (US) -oʊ
Noun
maillot (plural maillots)
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mail‧lot
- Rhymes: -oː
French
Etymology
From Old French mailloel, from maille.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.jo/
audio (file)
Noun
maillot m (plural maillots)
- (clothing) vest
- leotard (of a dancer); shirt, jersey (of a footballer); singlet (of a runner; of a basketball player)
- (cosmetics) bikini line
- Se faire épiler le maillot. ― To wax one's bikini line.
- (historical, obsolete) swaddling clothes
- Un enfant au maillot. ― A child in swaddling clothes.
Derived terms
- démailloter
- emmailloter
- emmaillotter
- maillot blanc
- maillot de bain
- maillot de corps
- maillot jaune
- maillot une pièce
- maillot vert
- porte-maillot
- réemmailloter
- sous-maillot
- succès de maillot
Descendants
Further reading
- “maillot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /maiˈʝot/ [mai̯ˈʝot̪]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /maiˈʎot/ [mai̯ˈʎot̪]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /maiˈʃot/ [mai̯ˈʃot̪]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /maiˈʒot/ [mai̯ˈʒot̪]
- Rhymes: -ot
- Syllabification: mai‧llot
- IPA(key): (nonstandard, most of Spain and Latin America) /maˈʝo/ [maˈʝo]
- IPA(key): (nonstandard, rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /maˈʎo/ [maˈʎo]
- IPA(key): (nonstandard, Buenos Aires and environs) /maˈʃo/ [maˈʃo]
- IPA(key): (nonstandard, elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /maˈʒo/ [maˈʒo]
Derived terms
- maillot amarillo
Further reading
- “maillot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (DPD) (en línea), 2.ª edición (versión provisional).
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