pilote

See also: piloté

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.lɔt/

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Etymology 1

Noun

pilote m (plural pilotes)

1. (aviation) pilot (controller of aircraft)

   Le pilote a réussi à quitter son avion juste avant le crash.

   The pilot managed to get out of his plane just before the crash.

2. (nautical) pilot (controller of vessel)
3. (motor racing) driver (controller of a racecar)
4. (software) driver (computing)
5. (engineering) pilot (miniature prototype)
6. (television) pilot (sample episode of a television series)

Derived terms

• baleine pilote
• bateau pilote
• pilote automatique
• pilote de brousse
• pilote de chasse
• piloter

Descendants

• → Albanian: pilot
• → Azerbaijani: pilot
• → Bulgarian: пилот (pilot)
• → Danish: pilot
• → German: Pilot
  • → Czech: pilot
  • → Estonian: piloot
• → Finnish: pilotti
• → Georgian: პილოტი (ṗiloṭi)
• → Hungarian: pilóta
• → Latvian: pilots
• → Lithuanian: pilotas
• → Macedonian: пилот (pilot)
• → Norman: pilote
• → Norwegian: pilot
• → Plautdietsch: Pieloot
• → Polish: pilot
• → Romanian: pilot
• → Russian: пилот (pilot)
  • → Chechen: пилот (pilot)
  • → Komi-Zyrian: пилот (pilot)
• → Serbo-Croatian: pilot / пилот
• → Slovene: pilot
• → Swedish: pilot
• → Turkish: pilot
• → Uzbek: pilot
• → Yiddish: פּילאָט (pilot)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pilote

1. inflection of piloter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• piolet

Italian

Noun

pilote f

1. plural of pilota

Anagrams

• oplite, polite

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French pilote.

Noun

pilote m (plural pilotes)

1. (Jersey) pilot

Portuguese

Verb

pilote

1. inflection of pilotar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piˈlote/ [piˈlo.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: pi‧lo‧te

Etymology 1

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Noun

pilote m (plural pilotes)

1. (architecture) pile
   • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:

     Después de atravesar un puente de madera, que sumerge en el salobre fango sus podridos pilotes, subimos una cuesta (casi estamos ya en Ficóbriga), desde la cual se ve la ría, dando vueltas como si no supiera a dónde va, ni dónde está el mar que la espera, metiéndose en todos los charcos de las marismas cuando hay marea, y huyendo de ellos aprisa desde que empieza la baja.

     After crossing a wooden bridge, its rotten piles sunk in the salty muck, we climb a hill (we’re nearly to Ficobriga) from which we can see the estuary, turning in circles as if it knows not where it is going, nor where is the sea that awaits it, getting into the marsh’s every puddle with high tide, and quickly fleeing them once it begins to ebb.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pilote

1. inflection of pilotar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “pilote”, 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