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See also: Bluetooth

English

Verb

bluetooth (third-person singular simple present bluetooths, present participle bluetoothing, simple past and past participle bluetoothed)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Bluetooth.
    • 2010, Katie Taylor, chapter 32, in Confessions of a Teenager: The Diaries of Three Troubled Teens, RoseDog Books, →ISBN, page 92:
      Everyone’s bluetoothing each other the latest ring tones and pictures.
    • 2011, Darrell Weston, Are you coming out today?, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 110:
      If someone heard this, it was not merely a case of bluetoothing the song across, you had to go to the ringtone creator on your phone, edit the tune and then write down the instructions, in the form of key presses for your mate.
    • 2012, Ron Meyer, chapter 2, in Extinction, Roundfire Books, →ISBN, page 10:
      Monitors were hooked up and they updated the patient’s vitals every five second, which were then bluetoothed to a large interactive smart board on the near wall in letters big enough for everyone to read easily.
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Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Bluetooth, calqued from Old Norse Blátǫnn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbluːtuːt/, [ˈbluːt̪uːt̪]
  • Rhymes: -uːtuːt
  • Pronunciation as in English is also common

Noun

bluetooth

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  1. (networking) Bluetooth (personal area wireless network)

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...
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Italian

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Bluetooth, calqued from Old Norse Blátǫnn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌbluˈtut/
  • Rhymes: -ut

Noun

bluetooth m (uncountable)

  1. (networking) Bluetooth (personal area wireless network)

Further reading

  • bluetooth in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Spanish

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Bluetooth, calqued from Old Norse Blátǫnn.

Pronunciation

Noun

bluetooth m (uncountable)

  1. (networking) Bluetooth (personal area wireless network)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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