escadrille

Borrowed from French escadrille, from Middle French, from Spanish escuadrilla, from Latin exquadrare (“to square off”).

escadrille (plural escadrilles)

1. A small squadron.
2. (historical, military) A unit of (usually) ten or more aircraft in World War I France.

• Wikipedia article on the Lafayette Escadrille

Borrowed from French escadrille.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛs.kaːˈdri.jə/

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• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧dril‧le

escadrille f or n (plural escadrilles)

1. escadrille, small squadron; especially of aeroplanes

• eskader

Borrowed from Spanish escuadrilla.

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ka.dʁij/

escadrille f (plural escadrilles)

1. squadron (of airplanes)
2. flotilla

• → Danish: eskadrille
• → Dutch: escadrille
• → English: escadrille

• “escadrille” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “escadrille” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “escadrille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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