avión

/aˈbjon/ · A2 · noun · m

airplane

avión — airplane

✈️ avión = ave (bird) + -ón (big): a big bird

From French avion, coined from Latin avis, bird — the same root as Spanish ave and English aviation. The -ón ending also happens to be the Spanish suffix for big, so the word reads as big bird. Masculine: el avión.

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