Noun: automobile
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | automobile |
| Plural f | automobiles |
Sample Sentences
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L’automobile est un moyen de déplacement pratique à la campagne, mais cher et polluant. (The automobile is a practical means of travel in the countryside, but it's expensive and polluting.)
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Ici même les automobiles ont l’air d’être anciennes / La religion seule est restée toute neuve la religion / Est restée simple comme les hangars de Port-Aviation [1913, Guillaume Apollinaire, “Zone”, in Alcools, Nouvelle Revue Française:]
Nouns inflected like automobile
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, 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 automobile
24. From auto- + mobile, as the vehicle is powered by an engine rather than pulled by horses.
Verbs referencing "automobile"
Danish Nouns
bil, English Nouns
automobile, Finnish Nouns
automobiili, Greek Nouns
αυτοκίνητο, German Nouns
Auto, Danish Nouns
automobil, Romanian Nouns
automobil, Russian Nouns
автомобиль, Catalan Nouns
automòbil, Belarusan Nouns
самаход, German Nouns
Selbstfahrer, Dutch Nouns
automobiel, Russian Nouns
самоход.
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