vélocipède means “velocipede” | MotiTan French Dictionary

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Ce vélocipède appartient à une collection privée.

This velocipede belongs to a private collection.

A nineteenth-century two-wheeled machine whose rider moves it by pressing pedals, before the modern bicycle design.

vélo: An everyday bicycle ridden by pedaling.
bicyclette: A general term for a two-wheeled vehicle powered by pedals.

Appareil à roues du XIXe siècle actionné par des pédales, ancêtre de la bicyclette moderne.

Vélocipède was coined in French from Latin velox, velocis and pes, pedis, with the learned elements describing speed and feet.

The indefinite article is un vélocipède because the noun is masculine, as in un ancien vélocipède.