piolet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French piolet, or its source, Franco-Provençal piolet (“small axe”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpjəʊ.leɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.ə.leɪ/

Noun

piolet (plural piolets)

1. (climbing) An ice axe/ice ax.

Anagrams

• Polite, polite, topile

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Franco-Provençal piolèt (“small axe”), from piôla, from Piedmontese piòla, from Vulgar Latin *happia, from Frankish *happjā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pjɔ.lɛ/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

Noun

piolet m (plural piolets)

1. (climbing) ice axe, piolet

Descendants

• → English: piolet
• → Spanish: piolet
• → Romanian: piolet

See also

• pic à glace

Further reading

• “piolet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• pilote, piloté

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French piolet.

Noun

piolet m (plural pioleți)

1. (climbing) piolet

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	piolet	pioletul		pioleți	pioleții
genitive-dative	piolet	pioletului		pioleți	pioleților
vocative	pioletule			pioleților

Spanish

Noun

piolet m (plural piolets)

1. (climbing) piolet, ice ax

Further reading

• “piolet”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025