aviator

English

Etymology

From French aviateur.

Pronunciation

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Noun

aviator (plural aviators)

1. An aircraft pilot, especially a military pilot. The use of the word may imply claims of superior airmanship, as in navy aviator vs. air force pilot.
2. (obsolete) An experimenter in aviation.
3. (obsolete) A flying machine.

Synonyms

• flier, flyer

Hyponyms

• aviatrix (specifically female)

Derived terms

• aviator glasses
• aviator shades
• aviator sunglasses

Translations

aircraft pilot

• Arabic: طَيَّار m (ṭayyār)
• Belarusian: лё́тнік n (ljótnik)
• Bulgarian: авиа́тор (bg) m (aviátor), авиа́торка f (aviátorka)
• Catalan: aviador m
• Chechen: кеманхо (kemanxo), пилот (pilot)
• Czech: letec (cs) m, aviatik m
• Danish: pilot (da) c
• Finnish: lentäjä (fi), pilotti (fi)
• French: aviateur (fr) m, aviatrice (fr) f
• Galician: aviador (gl) m
• Greek: αεροπόρος (el) m or f (aeropóros), ιπτάμενος κροίσος m (iptámenos kroísos)
• Indonesian: aviator (id), penerbang (id), juru terbang (id), pilot (id)
• Irish: eitleoir m
• Italian: aviatore (it) m, aviatrice (it) f
• Malay: juruterbang (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flyger (no) m

• Polish: lotnik (pl) m, awiator (pl) m (archaic)
• Portuguese: aviador (pt) m, aviadora f, aviatriz (pt) f
• Romanian: aviator (ro) m, aviatoare (ro) f
• Spanish: aviador (es) m, aviadora (es) f
• Tagalog: manlilipad
• Yiddish: אַוויאַטאָר m (avyator)

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism

Noun

aviator (plural aviator-aviator, first-person possessive aviatorku, second-person possessive aviatormu, third-person possessive aviatornya)

1. (aviation) aviator, pilot: A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.

   Synonyms: aviator, juru terbang, penerbang, pilot

   Synonym: juruterbang (Standard Malay)

Further reading

• “aviator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French aviateur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vi.aˈtor/

Noun

aviator m (plural aviatori, feminine equivalent aviatoare)

1. aviator

   Synonym: zburător

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	aviator	aviatorul		aviatori	aviatorii
genitive-dative	aviator	aviatorului		aviatori	aviatorilor
vocative	aviatorule			aviatorilor

Derived terms

• femeie-aviator

Related terms

• aviatic
• aviație

References

• aviator in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)