Borrowed fromFrenchnacelle(“rowing boat, skiff; gondola (of a hot-air balloon, etc.); structure on an aircraft to house an engine”),Middle Frenchnacelle(“rowing boat, skiff”), fromOld Frenchnacele, fromLate Latinnaucella,nāvicella(“small boat or ship”), fromLatinnāvis(“a ship”) (fromProto-Indo-European*néh₂us(“a boat”)) +-ella(diminutivesuffix).^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation,General American)IPA^(key):/nəˈsɛl/

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• Rhymes:-ɛl
• Hyphenation:na‧celle

nacelle (pluralnacelles)

1. (aviation)
   2. Thecompartment thatholdspassengers on adirigible,hot-air balloon, or otheraerostat; agondola.
   4. Aseparatestreamlinedenclosuremounted on anaircraft tohouse, originally, anengine, and now alsocargo orcrew.
   5. (archaic) Thecockpit of an aircraft.
2. (by extension)
   1. Ahollowboat-shapedstructure.
   2. An enclosure housingmachinery or amotor.
   4. (electrical engineering) Thepart between therotor andtower of awind turbine.
   5. (nautical) Thesubmersedproviders ofbuoyancy of aSWATH-hulled boat.
   7. (road transport) A streamlined enclosure on thebody ordashboard of amotor vehicle.

•  Nacelle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Inherited fromOld Frenchnacele(“small boat”), fromLate Latinnavicella, diminutive ofLatinnavis(“boat”).Doublet ofnavicelle.

• IPA^(key):/na.sɛl/

nacelle f (pluralnacelles)

1. (literary)skiff
2. gondola (of hot-air balloon etc.)
3. pod (of spacecraft)
4. cradle

• nacelle élévatrice

• naval
• navire
• nef

• “nacelle”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.