aeroplane

• n. 航空機（飛行機と同じ）

plane、広げる、飛ぶ、planと同じ、planeと略される。

aeroplane

aeroplane: [19] The prefix aero- comes ultimately from Greek āér ‘air’, but many of the terms containing it (such as aeronaut and aerostat) reached English via French. This was the case, too, with aeroplane, in the sense of ‘heavier-than-air flying machine’. The word was first used in English in 1873 (30 years before the Wright brothers’ first flight), by D S Brown in the Annual Report of the Aeronautical Society – he refers vaguely to an aeroplane invented by ‘a Frenchman’.

The abbreviated form plane followed around 1908. (An earlier, and exclusively English, use of the word aeroplane was in the sense ‘aerofoil, wing’; this was coined in the 1860s, but did not long survive the introduction of the ‘aircraft’ sense.) Aeroplane is restricted in use mainly to British English (and even there now has a distinctly old-fashioned air). The preferred term in American English is airplane, a refashioning of aeroplane along more ‘English’ lines which is first recorded from 1907.
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aeroplane (n.)

1866, from French aéroplane (1855), from Greek aero- "air" (see air (n.1)) + stem of French planer "to soar," from Latin planus "level, flat" (see plane (n.1)). Originally in reference to surfaces (such as the protective shell casings of beetles' wings); meaning "heavier than air flying machine" first attested 1873, probably an independent English coinage (see airplane).

1. I didn 't get a wink of sleep on the aeropane .

私は飛行機の中で目を閉じていません。

2.The aeropane was gyrating about the sky in a most unpleasant fashion.

飛行機が空中を旋回しているのは耐えられない。

3.The centre of pressure moves rearward and the aeropane becomes unbalanced.

気圧中心の後方移動により航空機の平衡が失われる。

4.On the aeropane I was befriended by a delightful German woman.

飛行機の中で、人に好かれるドイツ人女性は私に友達のように接してくれた。

5.The company was considered as a possible subcontractor to build the aeropane .

同社は、航空機の製造を担うことができる潜在的な下請け業者の1つと見なされている。