vehicle
Synonyms:
(noun) agency, agent, instrument, instrumentality, machinery, means, medium, ministry, organ.
Related Words:
(noun) agent, automobile, bicycle, boat, buggy, bus, cab, car, conveyance, crate, instrument, jalopy, jeep, mechanism, taxi, tool, truck, van, vector, wagon.
tenor (of rhetoric):
the subject of a metaphor, as “she” in “She is a rose.”
Origin:
1605–15; <Latin vehiculum, equivalent to veh(ere) to convey + -i--i- + -culum-cle2. Dictionary 2: C17: from Latin vehiculum, from vehere to carry. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of vehicle: 1612. History and Etymology for vehicle: borrowed from French & Latin; French véhicule, going back to Middle French, borrowed from Medieval Latin vehiculum "medium, agent of transmission," going back to Latin, "wheeled vehicle, means of transport," from vehere "to carry, convey" + -culum, instrumental suffix (going back to Indo-European *-tlom) — more at way entry 1. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
(noun) agency, agent, instrument, instrumentality, machinery, means, medium, ministry, organ.
Related Words:
(noun) agent, automobile, bicycle, boat, buggy, bus, cab, car, conveyance, crate, instrument, jalopy, jeep, mechanism, taxi, tool, truck, van, vector, wagon.
tenor (of rhetoric):
the subject of a metaphor, as “she” in “She is a rose.”
Origin:
1605–15; <Latin vehiculum, equivalent to veh(ere) to convey + -i--i- + -culum-cle2. Dictionary 2: C17: from Latin vehiculum, from vehere to carry. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of vehicle: 1612. History and Etymology for vehicle: borrowed from French & Latin; French véhicule, going back to Middle French, borrowed from Medieval Latin vehiculum "medium, agent of transmission," going back to Latin, "wheeled vehicle, means of transport," from vehere "to carry, convey" + -culum, instrumental suffix (going back to Indo-European *-tlom) — more at way entry 1. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.