Translation
aeroplane
Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from aviado ('aviation', from French aviation, itself coined from Latin avis 'bird') plus the instrument suffix -ilo, so literally the tool for flying.
- Origin
- Esperanto (from French)
- Root
- avis
- English cognates
- aviation, aviary
Examples
alte .
The aeroplane flies high above the sea.
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We waited for the aeroplane for two hours.
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I have never travelled by aeroplane.
Take the word apart and it teaches you the word-building system: avi-ad--o, the -ad of ongoing activity on the bird root, then - for the instrument, so an aeroplane is "the flying-activity tool". You will also meet the shorter avio in modern usage, but remains the standard dictionary form. The pilot is aviadisto or simply , the airport , and to travel by air is or per . A helicopter gets its own root, helikoptero.
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