different between arsenal vs munition

English

Etymology

From Italian arsenale, also French arsenal, from Arabic ???? ???????????? (d?r a?-?in??a, “manufacturing shop”); ????? (d?r) + ????????? (?in??a).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???(?)s?n?l/, /???(?)sn?l/

Noun

arsenal (plural arsenals)

1. A military establishment for the storing, development, manufacturing, testing, or repairing of arms, ammunition, and other war materiel; an armoury.
2. A stock of weapons, especially all the weapons that a nation possesses.
3. A store or supply of anything.
4. Any supply of aid collected to prepare a person or army for hardship

   He arrived with a large arsenal of cleansers and tools, and got right to work.

   • Elyse Saugstad, a professional skier, wore a backpack equipped with an air bag, a relatively new and expensive part of the arsenal that backcountry users increasingly carry to ease their minds and increase survival odds in case of an avalanche.

Derived terms

• arsenal of democracy

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /??.s??nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?r.s??nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a?.se?nal/

Noun

arsenal m (plural arsenals)

1. arsenal (stock of weapons)
2. arsenal (store or supply of anything)

Further reading

• “arsenal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.s?.nal/

Noun

arsenal m (plural arsenaux)

1. (military, nautical) arsenal

Further reading

• “arsenal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /a?s??na?/
• Hyphenation: ar?se?nal

Noun

arsenal m (plural arsenais)

1. arsenal (military establishment)

Romanian

Etymology

From French arsenal

Noun

arsenal n (plural arsenale)

1. arsenal, armoury

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ars?na?l/
• Hyphenation: ar?se?nal

Noun

arsèn?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. arsenal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Arabic ???? ???????????? (d?r a?-?in??a, “industry house”). Compare dársena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?se?nal/, [a?.se?nal]
• Hyphenation: ar?se?nal

Noun

arsenal m (plural arsenales)

1. arsenal (stock of weapons)
2. arsenal (store or supply of anything)
3. dockyard

Further reading

• “arsenal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Latin m?niti? (“a defence, fortification”) via French munition.

Noun

munition (plural munitions)

1. (chiefly in the plural) Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition.
   • 1918, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation Book 7.:

     Just as we can say that an English girl who leaves the narrow circle of her old life, and goes into a munition factory and joins a union and takes part in its debates, will never after be a docile home-slave; so we can say that the clergyman who helps in Y. M. C. A. work in France, or in Red Cross organization in America, will be less the bigot and formalist forever after.

2. (chiefly in the plural, military, NATO) Bombs, rockets, missiles (complete explosive devices, in contrast to e.g. guns).
3. (rare, obsolete) A tower or fortification.
   • 1610, Douay-Rheims Bible, Habacuc 2:1

     I wil stand vpon my watch, and fixe my steppe vpon the munition: and I wil behold, to see what may be sayd to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.

Derived terms

• munitionette
• munitioner
• submunition

Translations

Verb

munition (third-person singular simple present munitions, present participle munitioning, simple past and past participle munitioned)

1. (transitive) To supply with munitions.

Derived terms

• remunition

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?niti?, from m?ni?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.ni.sj??/

Noun

munition f (plural munitions)

1. ammunition (weaponry)

Derived terms

Usage notes

Generally used in the plural.

Descendants

• English: munition

Further reading

• “munition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).