escadrille
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French escadrille, from Middle French, from Spanish escuadrilla, from Latin exquadrare (“to square off”).
Noun
[edit]escadrille (plural escadrilles)
- A small squadron.
- (historical, military) A unit of (usually) ten or more aircraft in World War I France.
See also
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French escadrille.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]escadrille f or n (plural escadrilles)
- escadrille, small squadron; especially of aeroplanes
Related terms
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish escuadrilla.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]escadrille f (plural escadrilles)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Danish: eskadrille
- → Dutch: escadrille
- → English: escadrille
Further reading
[edit]- “escadrille” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “escadrille” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “escadrille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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