peleton

From the French peloton (“little ball”); compare peloton.

peleton (plural peletons)

1. [18^th Century] (obsolete, rare) A small pellet or ball.
   • 1716, Miles Davies, “Of Medals, and Writings and Writers thereupon.”, in Athenæ Britannicæ: or, A critical history of the Oxford and Cambrige writers and writings‎, page 93:

     […] who continu'd still to pelter him with Heaps and Clouds of those Historical Balls or Librarian Bullets, or Pelotes or Peletons; […]

2. [current] Misspelling of peloton.
   • 2009 January 18, Christopher Clarey, “Armstrong Returns to Riding With a Purpose”, in New York Times:

     It is a tribute to the past of bicycle racing and is full of antique equipment, faded photographs and videos of sprints and peletons past.

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• IPA^(key): [pələˈtɔn]
• Hyphenation: pê‧lê‧ton

pêlêton (plural peleton-peleton, first-person possessive peletonku, second-person possessive peletonmu, third-person possessive peletonnya)

1. (military) platoon: a unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company.

• platun (Standard Malay)

• “peleton” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from French peloton. Doublet of pluton (“platoon”).

• IPA^(key): /pɛˈlɛ.tɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtɔn
• Syllabification: pe‧le‧ton

peleton m inan

1. (cycling) peloton

• peleton in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• peleton in Polish dictionaries at PWN