aeroport

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noun

An airport.

OriginEnglish port ← Old English port ← Latin portus →
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Meanings

nounaeroport (plural aeroports)

plural aeroports

  1. datedAn airport.

    Almost all the air accidents occur in the near vicinity of an aeroport […]

    1977, Excerpta Medica
    2 more examples

    ...to imitate flow of aircraft through an airspace and behavior of landing and taking-off aircraft in an aeroport area.

    1994, George W Zobrist, James V Leonard, Progress in Simulation

    I couldn't have gotten within a hundred feet of your fighters, and I hold an aeroport security badge. There is no way the Saudi prince got to your aircraft […]

    2008, Chris Stewart, The God of War

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ewsér
  3. Proto-Hellenic*auhḗr
  4. Ancient Greekᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)
  5. Ancient Greekἀέρος (aéros)
  6. Englishaero-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*pértus
  9. Proto-Italic*portus
  10. Latinportus
  11. Old Englishport
  12. Englishport
  13. Englishaeroport

From aero- + port as a modification of earlier airport. Compare French aéroport.

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APA

aeroport. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aeroport

MLA

“aeroport.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aeroport. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “aeroport,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aeroport.

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