hélicoptère
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἕλιξ (hélix, “spiral”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).
Coined in 1861 by Gustave de Ponton d'Amécourt.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (mute h) IPA(key): /e.li.kɔp.tɛʁ/
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Noun
[edit]hélicoptère m (plural hélicoptères)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Danish: helikopter
- → English: helicopter
- → Amharic: ሄሊኮፕተር (helikoptär)
- Bislama: helikopta
- → Cebuano: helikopter
- → Malay: helikopter
- → Tagalog: helikopter
- → Hawaiian: helekopa
- German: Helikopter
- Tok Pisin: helikopta
- → Ankave: erɨ´kura´
- → Polish: helikopter
- → Romanian: elicopter
- → Serbo-Croatian: helikopter
- → Persian: هلیکوپتر (helikopter)
- → Turkish: helikopter
Further reading
[edit]- “hélicoptère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
- “hélicoptère”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
- “hélicoptère” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.
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- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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