avion

Borrowed from French avion.

avion m (plural avionë)

1. aeroplane, airplane

   Synonym: aeroplan

• “avión,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 77a

avion

1. accusative singular of avio

avion

1. genitive singular of avio

• aivon, avoin, nivoa, novia, oivan, ovina, vaino, vaoin, vinoa, voina

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]

• IPA^(key): /a.vjɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

avion m (plural avions)

1. 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!

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

• IPA^(key): /aˈvjon/

avion (plural aviones)

1. airplane

Borrowed from French avion.

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avion m (plural avions)

1. (Jersey) airplane

• avion à réaction (“jet”)

Borrowed from French avion.

• IPA^(key): /aˈvjon/

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avion n (plural avioane)

1. aeroplane, airplane

• aeroport
• pilot

From French avion.

• IPA^(key): /aʋǐoːn/
• Hyphenation: a‧vi‧on

avìōn m (Cyrillic spelling авѝо̄н)

1. airplane, aeroplane

   Synonyms: vazduhoplov, aeroplan

2. aircraft

   Synonym: letelica

• (Croatian) zrȁkoplōv