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The word "parachute" comes "para", meaning "against" or "counter" in Ancient Greek, and "chute", the French word for "fall".
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∙ 13y agoThe English word parachute comes from the French parachute (1785), coined by French aeronaut Francois Blanchard.
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Where does the term parachute originate from?
From the French. Para from Parasol, and Chute=fall
What language does the word parachute come from?
Parachute comes from the french word "para" meaning "to prepare for".
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Where do parachutes originate from?
Leonardo Da Vinci first drew the parachute in one of his sketchbooks. Faust Vrancic jumped from the Venice tower in 1617, which is described as the first real parachute jump. Jean Pierre Blanchard was the first person to use the parachute in an actual emergency, claiming to have escaped from a hot air balloon by using a parachute in 1793.
