vitesse

From Old French vistece. By surface analysis, vite +‎ -esse.

• IPA^(key): /vi.tɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

vitesse f (plural vitesses)

1. speed
2. (automotive) gear

   à deux vitesses ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   boîte de vitesses ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   en quatrième vitesse ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   passer à la vitesse supérieure ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• → Luxembourgish: Vitesse
• → Romanian: viteză
• → Turkish: vites

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

• estives, sévîtes, vêtisse

From vitet (“to have someone carry, transport, or take something (away); to have something carried, transported, or taken (away)”) +‎ -je (personal suffix), from the causative of the verb visz.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvitɛʃːɛ]
• Hyphenation: vi‧tes‧se

vitesse

1. third-person singular subjunctive present definite of vitet

   Vitesse el a szemetét! ― Have your trash/garbage taken away! (formal conjugation) or Let him/her have their trash taken away!