Noun: automobile
| Singular | automobile |
| Plural | automobiles |
Sample Sentences
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Meronym: see list of auto parts
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Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. [2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:]
Nouns inflected like automobile
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Graeco-Phrygian *auto-
3. Proto-Hellenic *autós
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.
5. Ancient Greek αὖ (aû)
6. Ancient Greek τόν (tón)
7. Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós)
8. Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)lbor.
9. French auto-
10. Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-
11. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
12. Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
13. Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti
14. Proto-Italic *moweō
15. Latin moveō
16. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
17. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.
18. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
19. Proto-Italic *-ðlis
20. Latin -bilis
21. Latin mōbilislbor.
22. French mobile
23. French automobilebor.
24. English automobile
25. From French automobile, from Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”) + French mobile (“moving”), from Latin mōbilis (“movable”), equivalent to auto- (“self”) + mobile. See: French Nouns '
automobile', French Nouns '
mobile', Latin Nouns '
mōbilis'.