different between ballon vs ballot

English

Etymology

From French ballon. Doublet of balloon.

Noun

ballon (usually uncountable, plural ballons)

1. (ballet) The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair

See also

• Ballon (ballet) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• no ball

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch ballon, from French ballon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?l?n/

Noun

ballon (plural ballons or ballonne)

1. balloon

Derived terms

• ballonvaarder
• ballonvaart
• lugballon
• warmlugballon

Danish

Etymology

From French ballon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bal?n?/, [b?a?l??]

Noun

ballon c (singular definite ballonen, plural indefinite balloner)

1. balloon (inflatable object)
2. bulb
3. carboy, demijohn (large bottle)
4. (ballet, singular only) ballon (the quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair)

Inflection

Descendants

• ? Greenlandic: ballonngi

Further reading

• “ballon” in Den Danske Ordbog
• ballon on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballon. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??l?n/
• Hyphenation: bal?lon
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

ballon m (plural ballonnen or ballons, diminutive ballonnetje n)

1. balloon
2. hot-air balloon

   Synonym: heteluchtballon

Derived terms

Related terms

• bal
• ballonet

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ballon
• ? Indonesian: balon

French

Etymology

From Middle French ballon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.l??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

ballon m (plural ballons)

1. (inflatable) ball
   1. beachball
2. balloon
3. (chemistry) round-bottom flask

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

• balle

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

From northern Italian balone, ballone; compare standard pallone.

Noun

ballon m (plural ballons)

1. large ball

Descendants

• French: ballon (see there for further descendants)
• ? English: balloon (see there for further descendants)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?pallon/

Verb

ballon

1. first-person singular imperative of ballat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian balota (obsolete), ballotta (“small ball, especially one used to register a vote”), from balla (“bale, bundle”) + -otta (“suffix forming diminutive nouns”); or from Middle French balote (obsolete), ballotte (“small ball used to register a vote”) (also compare Middle French balotiage, French ballottage (“second ballot, runoff”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bæl?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bæl?t/
• Hyphenation: bal?lot
• Rhymes: -æl?t

Noun

ballot (plural ballots)

1. Originally, a small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means used to signify a vote.
2. The process of voting, especially in secret; a round of voting.
   • July 1836, A. B. (initials of author), London and Westminster Review Article XI, Bribery and Intimidation at Elections

     the insufficiency of the ballot

3. The total of all the votes cast in an election.
4. (chiefly US) A list of candidates running for office; a ticket.

Synonyms

• (paper or card used to cast a vote): ballot paper, voting slip

Derived terms

• absentee ballot
• ballot box
• butterfly ballot
• postal ballot

Translations

Verb

ballot (third-person singular simple present ballots, present participle balloting, simple past and past participle balloted)

1. To vote or decide by ballot.

2. To draw lots.

Translations

See also

• blackballing (also derived from the old practice of using balls to vote)

Further reading

• ballot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

balle +? -ot

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o

Noun

ballot m (plural ballots)

1. bundle, package
2. (informal, derogatory) fool, nitwit

Derived terms

• C'est ballot

Further reading

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

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?palloh(t)/

Verb

ballot

1. first-person plural imperative of ballat