Aeroplanum

Latin-English

āĕrŏplān|um, -ī. (a.eˈro.pla.num) neut.

1. An airplane.

[aër + planum, calqued from modern languages after French aéroplane. Cf. Modern Greek αεροπλάνο, i.e. aëroplanon. || The Anglicized form aëroplane is in use outside the US, usually written (and pronounced) without the diaeresis.]

Variant forms

“Aëróplanum” indicating a penultimate a short is asserted explicitly in Gross [1] and appears to be the common pronunciation, though the etymology would prefer “aëroplánum.”

Adjective constructions

• aëroplanum epibaticum passenger plane
• aëroplanum magnum
• aëroplanum onerarium cargo plane
• aëroplanum Russicum

Noun constructions

• aëroplani reliquiae the wreckage of an airplane
• currus loricati et aëroplana tanks and airplanes

Preposition constructions

• in aëroplano, in aëroplanum

Verb constructions

• aëroplanum irruit [in aliquid] an airplane crashes [into something]
• aëroplanum volat an airplane flies
• aëroplanum appellere to land an airplane
• aëroplanum delabitur an airplane falls [having lost power]
• aëroplano vehere to be carried by or ride in a plane
• aëroplanum volare to fly an airplane