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Do you mean a "'pter"? Helicopter is (like gyro, from the Greek) a helico-pter (whirl wing)
by srtjstjsj 6y ago
Do you mean a "'pter"?
Helicopter is (like gyro, from the Greek) a helico-pter (whirl wing)
- cestith 6y agoYou have the right derivation and you've broken "helicopter" correctly, but what exactly is a "gyroco"? It seems to me "gyrocopter" was very likely coined in English from the root "gyro" and the "copter" from "helicopter" as a back-formation.