aeronaut

• aëronaut

From aero- +‎ -naut, from the French aéronaute; compare the Italian aeronauta.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛəɹəˌnɔːt/
• IPA^(key): (US) /ˈɛɹəˌnɔt/, (cot–caught merger) /ˈɛɹəˌnɑt/

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aeronaut (plural aeronauts)

1. A person who travels through the air in an airship or balloon.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "Well, what is it that he does that I don't do? Just say the word, - teetotal, vegetarian, aeronaut, theosophist, superman."

Borrowed from French aéronaute. By surface analysis, aero- +‎ -naut.

aeronaut m (plural aeronauți, feminine equivalent aeronaută)

1. aeronaut