nacelle
French
noun
Definitions
- (literary) skiff
- gondola (of hot-air balloon etc.)
- pod (of spacecraft)
- cradle
Etymology
Inherited from Old French nacele (small boat) inherited from Latin navicella, navis (ship, boat, a ship).
Origin
Latin
navis
Gloss
ship, boat, a ship
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
船, 艇
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- nacelle English
- naviform English
- naufragium Latin
- navicella Latin
- navis Latin
- navicella Italian
- nacelle élévatrice French
- nave French
- élévatrice French
- ἀήρ Ancient Greek
- *néh₂us Proto-Indo-European
- nacele Old French
- nau Old Occitan