avion
EsperantoEdit
NounEdit
avion
- accusative singular of avio
FinnishEdit
NounEdit
avion
- Genitive singular form of avio.
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
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]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
avion m (plural avions)
- aeroplane
- Synonym: (dated) 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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DescendantsEdit
- → Catalan: avió
- → Esperanto: avio
- → Galician: avión
- → Luxembourgish: Avion
- → Portuguese: avião
- → Hunsrik: Aviong
- → Spanish: avión
ReferencesEdit
- ^ avion, aéroplane at Google Ngram Viewer
Further readingEdit
- “avion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
InterlinguaEdit
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NounEdit
avion (plural aviones)
NormanEdit
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Audio (Jersey) (file)
NounEdit
avion m (plural avions)
Derived termsEdit
- avion à réaction (“jet”)
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
avion n (plural avioane)
DeclensionEdit
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-CroatianEdit
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NounEdit
avìōn m (Cyrillic spelling авѝо̄н)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of avion
SynonymsEdit
- (Croatian) zrȁkoplōv