avion
Albanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
avion m (plural avionë)
References edit
- “avión,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 77a
Esperanto edit
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avion
- accusative singular of avio
Finnish edit
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avion
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French edit
Etymology edit
Named by French inventor and engineer Clément Ader for a patent application. From earlier Avion (1875), from Latin avis (“bird”) + -on, replacing earlier aéroplane after WWI.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
avion m (plural avions)
- aeroplane
- Synonym: (obsolete) aéroplane
- Regarde comme cet avion vole vite ! ― Look how fast this plane flies!
- 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince:
- – Qu’est ce que c’est que cette chose-là? – Ce n’est pas une chose. Ça vole. C’est un avion. C’est mon avion. Et j’étais fier de lui apprendre que je volais. Alors il s’écria: – Comment! tu es tombé du ciel!
- — What is that thing? — That's not a thing. It flies. It's an airplane. It's my airplane. And I was proud to teach him that I was flying. Then he exclaimed: — What! You fell from the sky!
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Descendants edit
- → Bulgarian: авион (avion)
- → Catalan: avió
- → Esperanto: avio
- → Galician: avión
- Haitian Creole: avyon
- → Luxembourgish: Avion
- → Macedonian: авион (avion)
- Mauritian Creole: avyon
- → Occitan: avion
- → Portuguese: avião
- → Hunsrik: Aviong
- → Romanian: avion
- → Serbo-Croatian: avion
- Seychellois Creole: avyon
- → Slovene: avion
- → Spanish: avión
References edit
Further reading edit
- “avion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua edit
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avion (plural aviones)
Norman edit
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Audio (Jersey) (file)
Noun edit
avion m (plural avions)
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- avion à réaction (“jet”)
Romanian edit
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avion n (plural avioane)
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Declension of avion
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) avion | avionul | (niște) avioane | avioanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) avion | avionului | (unor) avioane | avioanelor |
vocative | avionule | avioanelor |
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Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
avìōn m (Cyrillic spelling авѝо̄н)
Declension edit
Declension of avion
Synonyms edit
- (Croatian) zrȁkoplōv