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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French avion.
Noun
avion m (plural avionë)
- aeroplane, airplane
- Synonym: aeroplan
References
- “avión,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language], 1980, page 77a
Esperanto
Noun
avion
- accusative singular of avio
Finnish
Noun
avion
- genitive singular of avio
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Coined 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
Noun
avion m (plural avions)
- airplane
- 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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Interlingua
Pronunciation
Noun
avion (plural aviones)
- airplane
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from French avion.
Pronunciation
Noun
avion m (plural avions)
- (Jersey) airplane
Derived terms
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French avion.
Pronunciation
Noun
avion n (plural avioane)
- aeroplane, airplane
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From French avion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʋǐoːn/
- Hyphenation: a‧vi‧on
Noun
avìōn m (Cyrillic spelling авѝо̄н)
- airplane, aeroplane
- Synonyms: vazduhoplov, aeroplan
- aircraft
- Synonym: letelica
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