Missile - Wiktionary
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English
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Etymology
[edit]From Latin missile (“thrown weapon, projectile”), neuter of missilis (“throwable, capable of being thrown”), from mittere (“to send”). From 1611. Compare Middle French missile (“projectile”), from 1636.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mĭsʹīl, IPA(key): /ˈmɪs.aɪl/
- (General American, Canada) enPR: mĭsʹīl, mĭsʹəl, IPA(key): /ˈmɪs.(ə)l/, /-aɪl/
Audio (General American): (file) Audio: (file) - Homophone: missal (GA, Canada)
- Rhymes: -ɪsaɪl, -ɪsəl
- Hyphenation: mis‧sile
Noun
[edit]missile (plural missiles)
- Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet. [from 17th c.] The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.
- 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with missiles I saw them, / And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken.
- 2012, Paragraph 24, R v Blackshaw (2012) WLR 1126: Riot officers and police on horseback were deployed to disperse the crowns[sic – meaning crowds], but they came under attack from bottles, fireworks and other missiles.
- (military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched. [from 20th c.] That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.
Derived terms
[edit]- air-to-air missile
- air-to-surface missile
- antiballistic missile
- anti-ballistic missile
- antimissile
- antiship missile
- anti-ship missile
- ballistic missile
- cruise missile
- Euromissile
- guided missile
- hypermissile
- hypersonic missile
- intercontinental ballistic missile
- missileer
- missile farm
- missile gap
- missilelike
- missileman
- missileproof
- missilery
- missile silo
- nonmissile
- Patriot missile
- steely-eyed missile man
- submissile
- supermissile
- surface-to-air missile
- surface-to-surface missile
- TOW missile
Related terms
[edit]- mess
- message
- messenger
- mission
- missionary
- missive
Translations
[edit] air-based weapon
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See also
[edit]- projectile
- rocket
Further reading
[edit]- “missile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “missile”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Missile”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 540, column 3.
Anagrams
[edit]- mislies, similes, slimies, smilies
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French, from Latin missilis (“that may be thrown”) (as in English).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /mi.sil/
Audio: (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Noun
[edit]missile m (plural missiles)
- missile
- (slang) bombshell, hottie Synonyms: avion de chasse, bombe, frappe
Derived terms
[edit]- missile à tête chercheuse
Further reading
[edit]- “missile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈmis.si.le/
- Rhymes: -issile
- Hyphenation: mìs‧si‧le
Noun
[edit]missile m (plural missili)
- missile
Adjective
[edit]missile m or f by sense (plural missili)
- (relational) missile
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From missilis.
Noun
[edit]missile n (genitive missilis); third declension
- a thrown weapon, such as a javelin
- (plural) presents from the Emperor thrown to the people
- (New Latin) a missile (self-propelled projectile)
- 2018, Tuomo Pekkanen, Foederatio occidentalis Syriam missilibus percussit [1], Nuntii Latini 20.4.2018: USA, Britannia, Francia mane Sabbati plus centum missilia in tres metas Syriacas miserunt, in quibus arma chemica conficiebantur et tractabantur.The US, UK, and France Saturday morning fired over a hundred missiles at three Syrian sites in which chemical weapons were being built and stored.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | missile | missilia |
| genitive | missilis | missilium |
| dative | missilī | missilibus |
| accusative | missile | missilia |
| ablative | missilī | missilibus |
| vocative | missile | missilia |
Synonyms
[edit]- (javelin): tēlum, iaculum
Adjective
[edit]missile
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of missilis
References
[edit]- “missilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “missilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “missile”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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