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		picturesal on April 26, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word L... Not "plane"=sheet, but "plane" from the Greek "planos"=wandering. (Same root as planet=wandering star). An aeroplane is a wanderer through the air.

tullianus on April 27, 2017 [–]

Etymonline disagrees; -plane here is from French planer "to soar," ultimately from Latin planus, "flat." http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=aeroplane

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