different between flintlock vs fusil

English

Etymology

flint +? lock

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fl?nt?l?k/
• Hyphenation: flint?lock

Noun

flintlock (plural flintlocks)

1. An early type of firearm, using a spring-loaded flint to strike sparks into the firing pan.

Translations

See also

• flintlock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fju?z?l/

Etymology 1

From Old French fusel, fuisel, from a late Latin diminutive of Latin f?sus (“spindle”).

Noun

fusil (plural fusils)

1. (heraldry) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle French fusil, ultimately from Latin focus (“hearth; fire”). Doublet of fusee.

Noun

fusil (plural fusils)

1. (now historical) A light flintlock musket or firelock.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol II, ch. 43:

     [H]e out of meer wantonness attempted to trip up the heels of the soldier that stood next him, but failed in the execution, and received a blow of his breast with the butt end of a fusil, that made him stagger several paces backward.

Synonyms

• fusee

Translations

Etymology 3

Alternative forms.

Adjective

fusil (comparative more fusil, superlative most fusil)

1. Obsolete form of fusile.
   • 1728, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England

     A kind of fusil marble.

French

Etymology

From Old French fuisil, foisil, from Vulgar Latin *foc?lis (petra), from Latin focus. Compare Italian fucile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.zi/

Noun

fusil m (plural fusils)

1. rifle, gun
2. steel to strike sparks from a flint (pierre à fusil)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Catalan: fusell
• ? Spanish: fusil

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French fusil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu?sil/, [fu?sil]
• Rhymes: -il

Noun

fusil m (plural fusiles)

1. rifle

   Synonym: rifle

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: pusil
  • ? Western Bukidnon Manobo: pusil
• ? Ilocano: pusil

Related terms

Further reading

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