different between pedestal vs dais

English

Etymology

From Middle French piédestal, from Italian piedistallo (pie "foot" di "of" stallo "stand") "footstall".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?d?st?l/

Noun

pedestal (plural pedestals)

1. (architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
2. (figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.

3. (rail transport) A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
4. (machining) A pillow block; a low housing.
5. (bridge building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
6. (steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
7. (telecommunications) A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
8. (electronics) The measured value when no input signal is given.
9. (aviation) The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pedestal (third-person singular simple present pedestals, present participle pedestaling, simple past and past participle pedestaled)

1. To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.

See also

• pedestal on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Further reading

• pedestal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pedestal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pedestal”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• depetals, pleadest, step deal, telepads

Portuguese

Noun

pedestal m (plural pedestais)

1. (architecture) pedestal (the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like)
2. (figuratively) pedestal (a place of reverence or honor)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pedes?tal/, [pe.ð?es?t?al]

Noun

pedestal m (plural pedestales)

1. (architecture) pedestal (the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like)
2. (figuratively) pedestal (a place of reverence or honor)

Further reading

• “pedestal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• daïs (dated)
• deas (obsolete, Scotland)
• deis (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English deis, from Anglo-Norman deis, from Old French deis, dois (modern French dais), from Latin discum, accusative singular of discus (“discus, disc, quoit; dish”) (Late Latin discum (“table”)), from Ancient Greek ?????? (dískos, “discus, disc; tray”), from ?????? (dikeîn, “to cast, to throw; to strike”). Cognate with Italian desco, Occitan des. Doublet of desk, disc, discus, dish, and disk.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?de?.?s/, /?de?.?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?de?.?s/, /?da?-/, /-?s/

Noun

dais (plural daises)

1. A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from. [from c. 1800.]
2. (historical, northern Britain) A bench, a settle, a pew.
3. (obsolete) An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table. [13th–17th c.]
4. The canopy over an altar, etc.

Synonyms

• (raised platform): podium

Translations

See also

• predella

Further reading

• dais on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AIDS, Aids, IADS, IADs, Said, Saïd, aids, sadi, said, sida

Champenois

Noun

dais

1. (Auve) finger

References

• Tarbé, Prosper (1851) Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne?^[1] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 109

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin d?(n)sus. Compare Italian denso, Romanian des.

Adjective

dais m (feminine daisa)

1. dense
2. thick

French

Etymology

From Old French deis, dois, inherited from Latin discus. Doublet of disque, which was borrowed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?/

Noun

dais m (plural dais)

1. dais

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

dais

1. Alternative form of deis (“dais”)

Portuguese

Verb

dais

1. second-person plural (vós) present indicative of dar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dais/, [?d?ai?s]

Verb

dais

1. Informal second-person plural (vosotros, vosotras) present indicative form of dar.

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *qrep (“bear”). Cognate with Iu Mien jiepv.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dai??/

Noun

dais

1. bear (mammal).

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary?^[2], SEAP Publications, ?ISBN.