copilot

See also: co-pilot

English

Alternative forms

• co-pilot (British spelling)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Latin co-lbor.

English co-

English pilot

English copilot

From co- + pilot.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪlət

Noun

copilot (plural copilots)

1. A backup or assistant pilot of an aircraft.
2. An assistant, especially one that uses artificial intelligence.

Synonyms

• first officer
• second pilot
• number two

Translations

relief or assistant pilot of an aircraft

• Catalan: copilot (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 副駕駛 / 副驾驶 (zh) (fùjiàshǐ), 副機師 / 副机师 (fùjīshī)

• Dutch: copiloot (nl) m, tweede piloot m
• Finnish: lentoperämies, perämies (fi)
• French: copilote (fr) m or f
• German: Kopilot (de) m, Copilot (de) m
• Indonesian: kopilot (id)
• Italian: copilota (it) f
• Japanese: 副操縦士 (ja) (ふくそうじゅうし, fukusōjūshi), コ・パイロット (ko-pairotto), コ・パイ (ko-pai)
• Manx: co-stiureyder m
• Polish: drugi pilot m
• Portuguese: copiloto (pt) m
• Romanian: copilot (ro) m
• Russian: второ́й пило́т (ru) m (vtorój pilót) (second pilot)
• Spanish: copiloto (es) m
• Swedish: andrepilot (sv) c

Verb

copilot (third-person singular simple present copilots, present participle copiloting, simple past and past participle copiloted)

1. To serve as relief or assistant pilot.

Catalan

Etymology

From co- +‎ pilot.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

copilot m or f by sense (plural copilots)

1. copilot

Further reading

• “copilot”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “copilot”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “copilot” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Romanian

Etymology

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French co-

French pilote

French copilotebor.

Romanian copilot

Borrowed from French copilote.

Noun

copilot m (plural copiloți)

1. copilot

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	copilot	copilotul	copiloți	copiloții
genitive-dative	copilot	copilotului	copiloți	copiloților
vocative	copilotule		copiloților