different between fusible vs fusil

English

Etymology

From Old French fusible, from Medieval Latin fusibilis

Adjective

fusible (comparative more fusible, superlative most fusible)

1. Able to be fused or melted.

Translations

Noun

fusible (plural fusibles)

1. Any substance that can be fused or melted.
   • 2010, Susan Stein, The Complete Photo Guide to Textile Art (page 40)

     Try any fusibles you have on hand, making sure that they aren't too stiff for the project you have in mind.

Anagrams

• subfile

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fusibilis, from the stem of fund?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.zibl/

Noun

fusible m (plural fusibles)

1. fuse (electrical component)

Further reading

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

Spanish

Noun

fusible m (plural fusibles)

1. fuse (electrical component)

Derived terms

• caja de fusibles

See also

• espoleta f
• mecha f

Adjective

fusible (plural fusibles)

1. fusible

   Synonym: fundible

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.