aerostat

See also: aérostat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French aérostat, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”) + στατός (statós, “stable”), equivalent to aero- +‎ -stat.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

aerostat (plural aerostats)

1. An aircraft, such as a dirigible or balloon, that derives its lift from buoyancy rather than from wings or rotors.
   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Venus:

     With its molten temperatures, sulphuric acid clouds, and crushing carbon dioxide atmosphere, Venus has only a handful of aerostat research outposts.

2. A moored balloon flown in a semi-permanent manner, such as a border patrol monitoring balloon affixed at 18,000 feet (~6 km).

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “lighter-than-air craft, with respect to its weight relationship with air”): aerodyne

Derived terms

• aerostatic
• tethered aerostat

Translations

aircraft

• Armenian: աերոստատ (hy) (aerostat)
• Belarusian: аэраста́т m (aerastát)
• Bulgarian: аероста́т m (aerostát)
• Catalan: aeròstat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 浮空器 (fúkōngqì), 浮昇器 / 浮升器 (fúshēngqì)

• Esperanto: aerostato
• Finnish: aerostaatti (fi)
• French: aérostat (fr) m
• Georgian: აეროსტატი (aerosṭaṭi)
• Greek: αερόστατο (el) n (aeróstato)
• Ido: aerostato (io)
• Italian: aerostato (it) m, dirigibile (it) m
• Japanese: エアロスタット (earosutatto)
• Korean: 에어로스탯 (eeoroseutaet)
• Macedonian: аероста́т m (aerostát)
• Polish: aerostat (pl) m
• Portuguese: aeróstato (pt) m
• Romanian: aerostat (ro) n
• Russian: аэроста́т (ru) m (aerostát)
• Slovak: aerostat m
• Spanish: aerostato (es) m, aeróstato (es) m
• Ukrainian: аероста́т (uk) m (aerostát)

balloon

• Bulgarian: възду́шен бало́н m (văzdúšen balón)
• Esperanto: aerostato
• Finnish: aerostaatti (fi)
• Ido: aerostato (io)
• Italian: aerostato (it) m
• Macedonian: аероста́т m (aerostát), во́здушен ба́лон m (vózdušen bálon)
• Polish: aerostat (pl) m
• Russian: аэроста́т (ru) m (aerostát), возду́шный шар (ru) m (vozdúšnyj šar)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} аеростат m (aerostat)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} aerostat (sh) m
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} аеростат (uk) m (aerostat)

See also

• aerodyne
• airship

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-

Proto-Indo-European *-r

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér

Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr

Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr)

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *sth₂tósder.

Proto-Hellenic *statósder.

Ancient Greek στατός (statós)

French aérostatbor.

Polish aerostat

Borrowed from French aérostat. By surface analysis, aero- + -stat. First attested in 1784.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ɛˈrɔ.stat/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔstat
• Syllabification: a‧e‧ro‧stat

Noun

aerostat m inan

1. aerostat

Declension

Declension of aerostat

	singular	plural
nominative	aerostat	aerostaty
genitive	aerostatu	aerostatów
dative	aerostatowi	aerostatom
accusative	aerostat	aerostaty
instrumental	aerostatem	aerostatami
locative	aerostacie	aerostatach
vocative	aerostacie	aerostaty

Related terms

adjective

• aerostatyczny

nouns

• aerostacja
• aerostata
• aerostatek
• aerostatyka

Further reading

• “aerostat”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “aerostat”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “aerostat”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “aerostat”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 10
• aerostat in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-

Proto-Indo-European *-r

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér

Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr

Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr)

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *sth₂tósder.

Proto-Hellenic *statósder.

Ancient Greek στατός (statós)

French aérostatbor.

Romanian aerostat

Borrowed from French aérostat.

Noun

aerostat n (plural aerostate)

1. aerostat

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	aerostat	aerostatul	aerostate	aerostatele
genitive-dative	aerostat	aerostatului	aerostate	aerostatelor
vocative	aerostatule		aerostatelor

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

ȁerostāt m inan (Cyrillic spelling а̏ероста̄т)

1. aerostat