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English

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Pedestal

Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French piédestal, itself borrowed from Italian piedistallo (literally “foot stand”). Spelling influenced by Latin pēs, pedem.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛdɪstəl/, (by conflation with stool) /ˈpɛdɪsˌtuːl/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

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pedestal (plural pedestals)

  1. (architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
  2. (figuratively) A place of reverence or honor. He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her.
    • 2019 October 2, Lauren Frayer, “Gandhi Is Deeply Revered, But His Attitudes On Race And Sex Are Under Scrutiny”, in NPR‎[1]:But India is also where the Mahatma may have fallen furthest from the pedestal.
  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.
  10. (photography) An item upon which television cameras are mounted.
  11. The tough protuberant pad covering a dromedary's sternum, which, when the camel lies down, causes the abdomen to be slightly above the hot ground.

Derived terms

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  • pedestal coil
  • pedestal computer
  • pedestal drill
  • pedestal fan
  • pedestalization
  • pedestalize
  • pedestal server
  • pedestal telephone
  • place, set, put on a pedestal
  • unpedestal

Translations

[edit] the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like
  • Afrikaans: voetstuk, pilaarvoet
  • Arabic: عَمُود (ʕamūd), حامِل (ar) (ḥāmil), مِنَصَّة (minaṣṣa)
  • Armenian: պատվանդան (hy) (patvandan)
  • Basque: idulki
  • Belarusian: п'едэста́л m (pʺjedestál), пастаме́нт (pastamjént)
  • Breton: mas (br) m
  • Bulgarian: пиедестал (bg) m (piedestal)
  • Catalan: pedestal (ca) m, peana (ca) f
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 台座 (zh) (táizuò), 基座 (zh) (jīzuò), 座子 (zh) (zuòzi)
  • Czech: podstavec (cs) m, piedestal (cs) m
  • Danish: sokkel c
  • Dutch: voetstuk (nl) n, sokkel (nl) m
  • Esperanto: piedestalo (eo), soklo (eo)
  • Finnish: jalusta (fi)
  • French: piédestal (fr) m
  • Galician: peaña f, pedestal (gl) m
  • Georgian: კვარცხლბეკი (ḳvarcxlbeḳi), საყრდენი (saq̇rdeni), ფუძე (puʒe), საფუძველი (sapuʒveli)
  • German: Sockel (de) m, Podest (de) n, Piedestal (de) n, Postament (de) n, Stand (de) m, Basis (de) f, Ständer (de) m, Gestell (de) n, Untergestell n, Bock (de) m, Auflagebock m, Auflager (de) n, Trägergerüst n, Standfuß m, Stützbock m
  • Greek: Ancient: ὑπόβαθρα f (hupóbathra), βάθρον n (báthron)
  • Hebrew: כַּן (he) m (kan)
  • Hungarian: talapzat (hu)
  • Icelandic: fótstallur m
  • Ido: piedestalo (io)
  • Irish: seastán m
  • Italian: piedistallo (it) m
  • Japanese: 台座 (ja) (だいざ, daiza)
  • Latin: basis (la) f, crepīdō f
  • Latvian: pjedestāls m
  • Lithuanian: pjedestalas m
  • Luxembourgish: Sockel m
  • Macedonian: пиедестал m (piedestal)
  • Manx: laan
  • Norwegian: pidestall m, sokkel (no)
  • Occitan: pèdestal m
  • Ottoman Turkish: سكی (seki), كرسی (kürsi)
  • Persian: پایه (fa) (pâye)
  • Polish: piedestał (pl) m, postument (pl) m
  • Portuguese: pedestal (pt) m
  • Romanian: piedestal (ro) n
  • Russian: пьедеста́л (ru) m (pʹjedestál), постаме́нт (ru) m (postamént), цо́коль (ru) m (cókolʹ)
  • Slovak: podstavec m, piedestál m
  • Slovene: podstávek m
  • Spanish: pedestal (es) m, peana (es) f
  • Swedish: piedestal (sv) c
  • Thai: แท่น (th) (tɛ̂n)
  • Turkish: ayaklık (tr), duraç (tr), kaide (tr), taban (tr), oturtak
  • Ukrainian: п'єдестал m (pʺjedestal)
  • Vietnamese: bệ (vi)
figuratively: a place of reverence or honor
  • Hungarian: piedesztál (hu)

Verb

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pedestal (third-person singular simple present pedestals, present participle (US) pedestaling or (UK) pedestalling, simple past and past participle (US) pedestaled or (UK) pedestalled)

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

References

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  • Category:pedestals on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • “pedestal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pedestal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “pedestal”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

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  • depetals, pleadest, step deal, telepads

Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian piedestallo.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [pə.ðəsˈtal]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [pe.ðesˈtal]

Noun

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pedestal m (plural pedestals)

  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)

Synonyms

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  • (base of a structure): peanya, repeu

Further reading

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  • “pedestal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /pe.desˈtaw/ [pe.desˈtaʊ̯]
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /pe.desˈtaw/ [pe.desˈtaʊ̯]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /pe.deʃˈtaw/ [pe.deʃˈtaʊ̯]
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨ.dɨʃˈtal/ [pɨ.ðɨʃˈtaɫ]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨ.dɨʃˈtal/ [pɨ.ðɨʃˈtaɫ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨ.dɨʃˈta.li/ [pɨ.ðɨʃˈta.li]
  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: pe‧des‧tal

Noun

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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)
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  • pé

Further reading

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  • “pedestal”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
  • “pedestal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Romanian

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Noun

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pedestal n (plural pedestaluri)

  1. obsolete form of piedestal

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative pedestal pedestalul pedestaluri pedestalurile
genitive-dative pedestal pedestalului pedestaluri pedestalurilor
vocative pedestalule pedestalurilor

References

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  • pedestal in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pedesˈtal/ [pe.ð̞esˈt̪al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: pe‧des‧tal

Noun

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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)

Derived terms

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  • en un pedestal

Further reading

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  • “pedestal”, 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

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