nacelle

Borrowed from French nacelle.

• IPA^(key): /nəˈsɛl/

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nacelle (plural nacelles)

1. A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house an engine, cargo, or crew.
2. The part between the tower and rotor of a wind turbine.
3. The compartment that holds passengers on a hot-air balloon, a dirigible, or an aerostat; a gondola.
4. The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH hulled boat.
5. (obsolete) A small boat.

From Old French nacele (“small boat”), from Late Latin navicella, diminutive of Latin navis (“boat”). Doublet of navicelle.

• IPA^(key): /na.sɛl/

nacelle f (plural nacelles)

1. (literary) skiff
2. gondola (of hot-air balloon etc.)
3. pod (of spacecraft)
4. cradle

• nacelle élévatrice

• naval
• navire
• nef

• “nacelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.