fuselage

Fuselage of a Boeing 737 shown in brown

Etymology

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Latin fūsusder.

Old French fusel

Proto-Italic *-āzi

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Latin -ereinflu.

Latin -āre

Old French -ier

Middle French -er

French -er

French fuseler

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Italic *-kos

Latin -cus

Latin -icus

Latin -āticus

Latin -āticum

Old French -age

Middle French -age

French -age

French fuselagebor.

English fuselage

Borrowed from French fuselage. Ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle, spinning wheel”).

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”)).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːzəˌlɑːʒ/, /ˈfjuːsəˌlɑːʒ/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

fuselage (plural fuselages)

(aeronautics) The main body of an aerospace vehicle; the long central structure of an aircraft to which the wings (or rotors), tail, and engines are attached, and which accommodates crew and cargo. [from 1909]
- 2024 January 8, Paradise Afshar, Elizabeth Wolfe, Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, “New details emerge on piece of Alaska Airlines plane that blew off midflight as investigators probe ‘explosive decompression’”, in CNN‎:
  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 March 1, Chris Isidore and Gregory Wallace, “Boeing wants to buy back the company that builds the body of its troubled Max planes”, in CNN‎:
  Wichita, Kansas-based Spirit AeroSystems makes major parts of several Boeing models, including the fuselages for the 737 Max.

Derived terms

fuselaged

Translations

main body of aerospace vehicle — see also hull,‎ bodywork,‎ body

Arabic: جِسْم طَائِرَة m (jism ṭāʔira), جِسْم (ar) m (jism)
Armenian: ֆյուզելաժ (hy) (fyuzelaž)
Azerbaijani: füzelyaj, təyyarənin gövdəsi
Belarusian: фюзеля́ж m (fjuzjeljáž), фюзэля́ж m (fjuzeljáž)
Bulgarian: фюзела́ж m (fjuzeláž)
Catalan: buc (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 機身 / 机身 (gei¹ san¹)

Mandarin: 機身 / 机身 (zh) (jīshēn)
Czech: trup (cs) m
Danish: fuselage (da) c, skrog (da) n, flykrop c
Dutch: vliegtuigromp m, romp (nl) m
Finnish: runko (fi)
French: fuselage (fr) m
Galician: fuselaxe f
Georgian: ფიუზელაჟი (piuzelaži)
German: Flugzeugrumpf (de) m, Rumpf (de) m
Greek: άτρακτος (el) m (átraktos)
Hungarian: törzs (hu), repülőgéptörzs (hu)
Indonesian: badan (id)
Italian: fusoliera (it) f
Japanese: 胴体 (ja) (どうたい, dōtai), 機体 (ja) (きたい, kitai)
Kazakh: фюзеляж (füzeläj)
Korean: 동체(胴體) (ko) (dongche), 기체(機體) (ko) (giche)
Kyrgyz: фюзеляж (ky) (fyuzelyaj)
Latvian: fizelāža (lv) f
Lithuanian: fiuzeliažas m
Macedonian: труп m (trup)
Malay: fiuslaj
Maori: tīwai, kōhiwi
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: их бие (ix bije)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: flykropp m

Nynorsk: flykropp m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: بَدَنِه (badane)
Polish: kadłub (pl) m
Portuguese: fuselagem (pt) f
Romanian: fuzelaj (ro) n
Russian: фюзеля́ж (ru) m (fjuzeljáž)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тру̑п m

Roman: trȗp (sh) m
Slovak: trup (sk) m
Slovene: trup (sl) m
Spanish: fuselaje (es) m
Swedish: flygkropp (sv) c, flygplanskropp (sv) c
Tagalog: puselahe
Tajik: фюзеляж (fyuzelyaž)
Turkish: füzelaj
Ukrainian: фюзеля́ж m (fjuzeljáž)
Uzbek: fyuzelyaj (uz)
Vietnamese: thân (vi)

fuselage

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