different between automobile vs cabriolet

English

Etymology

From French automobile, from Ancient Greek ????? (autós, “self”) + French mobile (“moving”), from Latin m?bilis (“movable”).

Pronunciation

• (noun, verb)
  • (UK, General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /???.t?.m??bi?l/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /??.t?.mo??bil/
  • Hyphenation: au?to?mo?bile
• (adjective)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /???t???m??ba?l/

Noun

automobile (plural automobiles)

1. (US, Canada) A type of vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and a very limited amount of other load. A car or motorcar.

Usage notes

• The word automobile usually implies a car with seating for perhaps four or five passengers.
• A vehicle with more than six or seven seats is usually described as a limousine, minivan, van, SUV, bus, etc.

Synonyms

• (passenger vehicle): auto, car, (British) motor, (British) motorcar
• See also Thesaurus:automobile

Coordinate terms

• truck, van, bus, SUV, minivan, station wagon, sedan, coupe, convertible, sports car, racecar; wagon, cart, trailer, tractor; airplane, boat, ship

Related terms

• automatic
• automotive

Descendants

• ? Alabama: mobìlika
• ? Hawaiian: ?okomopila

Translations

Verb

automobile (third-person singular simple present automobiles, present participle automobiling, simple past and past participle automobiled)

1. (intransitive, dated) To travel by automobile.

Translations

Adjective

automobile (not comparable)

1. Self-moving; self-propelled.
   • 1919, Nikola Tesla, My Inventions

     As early as 1898 I proposed to representatives of a large manufacturing concern the construction and public exhibition of an automobile carriage which, left to itself, would perform a great variety of operations involving something akin to judgment.

   Synonym: autokinetic

Translations

French

Etymology

auto- +? mobile, as the vehicle is powered by an engine rather than pulled by horses.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.t?.m?.bil/
• Homophone: automobiles
• Hyphenation: au?to?mo?bile

Adjective

automobile (plural automobiles)

1. automotive

Noun

automobile f (plural automobiles)

1. automobile

Synonyms

• (informal) auto
• (France, informal) bagnole
• (France, informal) caisse
• (Quebec, Louisiana) char
• (France, informal) tire
• voiture

Derived terms

• automobilisable
• automobilisme
• automobiliste
• canot automobile

Descendants

• ? Dutch: automobiel
• ? English: automobile
• ? German: Automobil
• ? Russian: ??????????? (avtomobíl?)
  • ? Armenian: ????????? (avtomobil)
  • ? Azerbaijani: avtomobil
  • ? Georgian: ?????????? (av?omobili)
  • ? Kazakh: ?????????? (avtomobïl?)
  • ? Uyghur: ??????????? (aptomobil)
  • ? Uzbek: avtomobil

Further reading

• “automobile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

auto- +? mobile

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aw.to?m?.bi.le/
• Hyphenation: au?to?mò?bi?le
• Rhymes: -?bile

Noun

automobile f (plural automobili)

1. automobile

   Synonyms: auto, macchina, vettura

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabriolet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæ.b?i.??le?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

cabriolet (plural cabriolets)

1. An automobile with a retractable top.
2. (originally) A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.

Synonyms

• (automobile): convertible
• (carriage pulled by a horse): roadster

Derived terms

• cab

Translations

Anagrams

• bacteriol., carbolite

Dutch

Etymology

From French cabriolet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?.bri.o??l?(t)/
• Hyphenation: ca?bri?o?let
• Rhymes: -?, -?t

Noun

cabriolet m (plural cabrioletten or cabriolets, diminutive cabrioletje n)

1. cabriolet, convertible (car with a convertible top)
2. cabriolet (light carriage with a convertible top, drawn by one horse)

Derived terms

• cabrio

French

Etymology

From Italian cabriola, cabriole (“horse caper”) +? -et, from Latin capreolus, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros (“buck, he-goat”); see also Old Norse hafr (“he-goat”), Old English hæfr, Welsh gafr, Old Irish gabor. Doublet of Chevrolet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.b?i.j?.l?/

Noun

cabriolet m (plural cabriolets)

1. a cabriolet carriage
2. a convertible car
3. a knotted cord, each end tied to wood, to tie criminals to by the wrists
4. a Directoire style hat type

Descendants

See also

• coupé-cabriolet

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “cabriolet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Alternative forms

• cabriolè

Etymology

Borrowing from French cabriolet, from Italian cabriola.

Noun

cabriolet f (invariable)

1. (automobiles) cabriolet

   Synonym: cabrio

Further reading

• cabriolet in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Swedish

Etymology

From French cabriolet.

Noun

cabriolet c

1. cabriolet (vehicle)

Declension

Synonyms

• cab

Further reading

• cabriolet in Svensk ordbok.