Word
automobile
Phoneticsau·to·mo·bile, stress on the first syllable
US/ˈɔtəmoʊˌbiɫ/
UK/ˈɔːtəməbˌiəl/
Definitions
01a car
A2 · Elementary Countable noun Formal · American English
n. a passenger vehicle with four wheels and an engine; a formal word for a car.
n. a road vehicle, typically with four wheels, powered by an internal combustion engine or electric motor and designed for passenger transportation.
“The museum has a collection of classic automobiles from the 1920s.”
“The manufacturing plant produces thousands of automobiles each month, primarily for export to the European and Asian markets.”
02self-moving
C1 · Advanced Technology Technical · Formal
adj. moving by its own power rather than being pulled by an animal or person.
adj. self-propelling or self-moving; used to describe machinery that functions without external traction.
“The inventor designed an automobile carriage that did not need a horse.”
“Early engineering journals described the device as an automobile mechanism, distinguishing it from those requiring manual operation or animal power.”
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.? Proto-Indo-European *sóder.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder. Ancient Greek αὖ (aû) Ancient Greek τόν (tón)? Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós) Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)lbor. French auto- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin mōbilislbor. French mobile French automobilebor. English automobile From French automobile, from Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”) + French mobile (“moving”), from Latin mōbilis (“movable”), equivalent to auto- (“self”) + mobile.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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