avion
Esperanto
Finnish
French
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): /a.vjɔ̃/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔ̃
Noun
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
References
- avion, aéroplane at Google Ngram Viewer
Further reading
- “avion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈvjon/
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʋǐoːn/
- Hyphenation: a‧vi‧on
Declension
Synonyms
- (Croatian) zrȁkoplōv
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