automoteur
French, adjective/o.tɔ.mɔ.tœʁ/
automoteur is a French adjective meaning “automotive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui se meut par de soi-même, en vertu des lois de la physique”.
What does automoteur mean in English?
adjective
- 1
automotive
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui se meut par de soi-même, en vertu des lois de la physique. 2. Qui se meut de soi-même, à l’aide d’un élément moteur intégré.
noun: 1. Péniche de transport fluvial dotée d’un moteur. 2. Automoteur d’artillerie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of automoteur
- automotrice feminine
- automoteurs masculine plural
- automotrices feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce automoteur?
- /o.tɔ.mɔ.tœʁ/
- /ɔ.tɔ.mɔ.tœʁ/
- \o.to.mɔ.tœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to automoteur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is automoteur in French?
automoteur appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).