different between bidet vs commode

English

Etymology

From French bidet.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [?bi?de?]
• Rhymes: -i?de?
• (US) IPA^(key): [b??de?]

Noun

bidet (plural bidets)

1. a low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the external genitalia and the anus.
2. (obsolete) A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.
   • 1631, Ben Jonsons, Chloridia

     For joy of which I will return to myself, mount my bidet in a dance

Translations

Anagrams

• betid, bited, debit

Czech

Etymology

From French bidet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?d?t]
• Hyphenation: bi?det

Noun

bidet m inan

1. bidet

Declension

Further reading

• bidet in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• bidet in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

From bider (“to trot”), of unknown ultimate origin. Possibly from Proto-Celtic *bid (“small”), related to Irish bídeach (“small”) and Medieval Italian bidetto (“small horse”), itself probably related to Proto-Germanic *bitiz; or, possibly from a lost Middle French rabider (“go quickly, violently”), a descendant of Latin rabidus (“furious, fierce”), with loss of the initial prefix.

Modern sense derives from analogy with the straddling of a bidet and the straddling of a small horse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.d?/

Noun

bidet m (plural bidets)

1. pony, small horse
2. bidet

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: bidé, bidê

References

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• débit

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

bidet m (plural bidets)

1. (Jersey) pony
2. (Jersey) bidet

Synonyms

• (pony): pônîn, p'tit j'va

Polish

Etymology

From French bidet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?i.d?t/

Noun

bidet m inan (diminutive bidecik)

1. bidet (low-mounted plumbing fixture for cleaning the genitalia and anus)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) bidetowy

Further reading

• bidet in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• bidet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovak

Etymology

From French bidet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bidet]

Noun

bidet m (genitive singular bidetu, nominative plural bidety, genitive plural bidetov, declension pattern of dub)

1. bidet

Declension

References

• bidet in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Noun

bidet m (plural bidets)

1. Alternative form of bidé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French commode (literally “convenience”). Doublet of comodo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??m??d/

Noun

commode (plural commodes)

1. A low chest of drawers on short legs.
2. A stand for a washbowl and jug.
3. (euphemistic) A chair containing a chamber pot.
4. (euphemistic) A toilet.
5. (historical) A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
   • 1696, George Granville, The She-Gallants

     Now under high Commodes with Looks Erect,
     Bare-fac’d devours in gawdy Colours deck.

Synonyms

• (chamber pot): See Thesaurus:chamber pot
• (toilet): See Thesaurus:toilet

Related terms

• discommode, incommode
• bidet

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commodus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.m?d/

Adjective

commode (plural commodes)

1. convenient (of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy; expedient)

Derived terms

• accommoder
• incommode
  • incommoder

Descendants

• ? German: kommod

Noun

commode f (plural commodes)

1. chest of drawers, commode, dresser
2. (Louisiana) toilet

Descendants

• ? Danish: kommode
• ? German: Kommode
• ? Italian: comodino
• ? Norwegian: kommode
• ? Swedish: kommod
• ? Persian: ???? (komod)

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kom.mo.de/

Adjective

commode

1. comfortable

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

commod? (comparative commodius, superlative commodissim?)

1. conveniently
2. aptly, suitably

Etymology 2

Adjective

commode

1. vocative masculine singular of commodus

References

• commode in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• commode in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commode in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French commode.

Noun

commode f (plural commodes)

1. (Jersey) tallboy