ешелон

From French échelon (“rung, step”), from échelle (“ladder”) + -on (“suffix forming diminutives”). Échelle is derived from Latin scāla (“ladder”), from scandō (“to ascend, climb”), from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump”).

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ешело́н • (ešelón) m inan (genitive ешело́ну, nominative plural ешело́ни, genitive plural ешело́нів, relational adjective ешело́нний)

1. (military) echelon, (A train, convoy or group of aircraft of a specific purpose)

   ешелон польоту

   ešelon polʹotu

   flight level

2. (military) echelon, (A separate detachment of a deeply divided battle order or column of troops moving at some distance from one another)

   Synonym: валка (valka)

   тиловий ешелон штабу

   tylovyj ešelon štabu

   rear headquarters

   другий ешелон

   druhyj ešelon

   reserve, rear echelon, follow-on echelon

   бойовий ешелон

   bojovyj ešelon

   attack echelon

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “ешелон”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• “ешелон”, in Горох – Словозміна (in Ukrainian)
• A. Rysin, V. Starko, et al. (compilers, 2011–2020), “ешелон”, in English-Ukrainian Dictionaries