pneumatique
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French pneumatique.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pneumatique (plural pneumatiques)
- (historical) The pneumatic postal system in Paris (abolished 1984), or a letter sent by this system.
- 1928, Jean Rhys, Quartet, Penguin, published 2000, page 71:
- Then, full of imaginative and slightly sentimental resolution, he went out and posted the pneumatique.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 412:
- Thus were great love-letters born – they would be sent by pneumatique and a helmeted motor cyclist would deliver them, like Mercury himself, within the hour.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin pneumaticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πνευματικός (pneumatikós, “relating to wind or air”), from πνεῦμα (pneûma, “wind, air, breath, spirit”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pneumatique (plural pneumatiques)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]pneumatique m (plural pneumatiques)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: pneumatique
- → Portuguese: pneumático
Further reading
[edit]- “pneumatique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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