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Aeroplane

[air-uh-pleyn] Origin

aer·o·plane

[air-uh-pleyn]
noun Chiefly British.

Origin:
1870–75; < French aéroplane, equivalent to aéro- aero- + -plane, apparently feminine of plan flat, level (< Latin plānus; compare plain1), perhaps by association with forme plane; apparently coined and first used by French sculptor and inventor Joseph Pline in 1855
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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aeroplane or (US and Canadian) airplane (ˈɛərəˌpleɪn, ˈɛəˌpleɪn)
 
n
a heavier-than-air powered flying vehicle with fixed wings
 
[C19: from French aéroplane, from aero- + Greek -planos wandering, related to planet]
 
airplane or (US and Canadian) airplane
 
n
 
[C19: from French aéroplane, from aero- + Greek -planos wandering, related to planet]

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aeroplane
1866, from Fr. aéroplane (1855), from Gk. aero- "air" + stem of Fr. planer "to soar," from L. planus "level, flat" (see plane (1)). Originally in ref. to surfaces (such as the protective shell casings of beetles' wings); meaning "heavier than air flying machine" first
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attested 1873, probably an independent Eng. coinage (see airplane).
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