gondola
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian gondola, from Venetian góndoƚa, from Byzantine Greek κοντούρα (kontoúra, “cutter, kind of ship”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɒn.də.lə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]gondola (plural gondolas or gondole)
- A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.
- A hanging platform or car for transporting people or cargo.
- An enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain; an enclosed ski lift; a cable car.
- The car or basket of a hot-air balloon, airship, zeppelin, etc.
- The hanging cart in which a glass-cleaning worker stands to clean exterior glass on tall buildings.
- That part of a transporter bridge that carries passengers, vehicles, along the length of the bridge span.
- (rail transport, US) A type of open railway car with low sides, used to carry heavy freight such as crushed rock or steel.
- Synonym: gondola car
- Hypernyms: freight car, goods wagon
- Coordinate term: hopper car
- A free-standing display unit in a supermarket or other retail store, where goods are shelved or hung on pegs or hooks for sale; A parasite bay; A parasite display.
Synonyms
[edit]- (rail transport): gondola car, gon
- (ski lift): cable car
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]narrow boat, especially in Venice
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enclosed car suspended to a cable onto which it travels
car or basket of an airship
part of a transporter bridge that carries
hanging cart in which a worker performs maintenance to an exterior wall of a building
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Verb
[edit]gondola (third-person singular simple present gondolas, present participle gondolaing, simple past and past participle gondolaed)
- To travel by gondola.
Gallery
[edit]-
a Venetian gondola
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a rail transport gondola wagon
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a modern airship gondola
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a transporter bridge gondola
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a ski lift gondola
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a window cleaners' gondola
Further reading
[edit]gondola (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian gondola.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gondola f (diminutive gondolka)
- gondola (narrow boat, especially in Venice)
- gondola (car or basket of an airship)
- (aviation) nacelle (separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house an engine)
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- gondoliér m anim
Further reading
[edit]- “gondola”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “gondola”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “gondola” in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012-, slovnikcestiny.cz
- “gondola”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]gondola
- third-person singular past historic of gondoler
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian gondola. First attested in 1612.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gondola (plural gondolák)
- gondola (a small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice)
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | gondola | gondolák |
accusative | gondolát | gondolákat |
dative | gondolának | gondoláknak |
instrumental | gondolával | gondolákkal |
causal-final | gondoláért | gondolákért |
translative | gondolává | gondolákká |
terminative | gondoláig | gondolákig |
essive-formal | gondolaként | gondolákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | gondolában | gondolákban |
superessive | gondolán | gondolákon |
adessive | gondolánál | gondoláknál |
illative | gondolába | gondolákba |
sublative | gondolára | gondolákra |
allative | gondolához | gondolákhoz |
elative | gondolából | gondolákból |
delative | gondoláról | gondolákról |
ablative | gondolától | gondoláktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
gondoláé | gondoláké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
gondoláéi | gondolákéi |
Possessive forms of gondola | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | gondolám | gondoláim |
2nd person sing. | gondolád | gondoláid |
3rd person sing. | gondolája | gondolái |
1st person plural | gondolánk | gondoláink |
2nd person plural | gondolátok | gondoláitok |
3rd person plural | gondolájuk | gondoláik |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ gondola in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
[edit]- gondola in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Venetian góndoła, probably from Byzantine Greek κοντούρα (kontoúra, “small tail”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gondola f (plural gondole)
Derived terms
[edit]Derived terms
Anagrams
[edit]Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian gondola, from Venetian góndoła, probably from Byzantine Greek κοντούρα (kontoúra, “small tail”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gondola f (diminutive gondolka)
- gondola (narrow boat, especially in Venice)
- gondola (enclosed car attached to a cable mechanically lifted up the side of a mountain)
- gondola (car or basket of an airship)
Declension
[edit]Declension of gondola
Derived terms
[edit]adjective
Related terms
[edit]adjective
nouns
Further reading
[edit]- gondola in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- gondola in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Slovak
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gondola f
Declension
[edit]Declension of gondola
Further reading
[edit]- “gondola”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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