Noun: fuselage
| Singular | fuselage |
| Plural | fuselages |
Sample Sentences
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Federal officials examining the horrifying midflight blowout of part of an Alaska Airlines aircraft’s fuselage are testing the detached piece for clues on what led up to the plane’s “explosive decompression” after the missing piece was discovered in an Oregon backyard. [2024 January 8, Paradise Afshar, Elizabeth Wolfe, Gregory Wallace, Pete Muntean, “New details emerge on piece of Alaska Airlines plane that blew off midflight as investigators probe ‘explosive decompression’”, in CNN, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2024:]
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Wichita, Kansas-based Spirit AeroSystems makes major parts of several Boeing models, including the fuselages for the 737 Max. [2024 March 1, Chris Isidore, Gregory Wallace, “Boeing wants to buy back the company that builds the body of its troubled Max planes”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2024:]
Nouns inflected like fuselage
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin fūsusder.
3. Old French fusel
4. Proto-Italic *-āzi
5. ▲
6. Latin -ereinflu.
7. Latin -āre
8. Old French -ier
9. Middle French -er
10. French -er
11. French fuseler
12. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
13. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
14. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
15. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
16. Proto-Italic *-ātos
17. Latin -ātus
18. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
19. Proto-Italic *-ikos
20. Latin -icus
21. Latin -āticus
22. Latin -āticum
23. Old French -age
24. Middle French -age
25. French -age
26. French fuselagebor.
27. English fuselage
28. Borrowed from French fuselage. Ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle, spinning wheel”).
29. For the meaning development, compare rocket, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“spinning wheel, distaff”) (whence also English rock (“distaff, the flax or wool on a distaff”)). See: Latin Nouns '
fūsus'.