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messenger
English
Etymology
From Middle English messengere, messingere, messangere, from Old French messanger, a variant of Old French messagier (French messager), equivalent to message +? -er. Doublet of messager.Displaced native English boda (“messenger, envoy”) and English ærendwreca (“messenger, ambassador”).
For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as Middle English -ing and the rare Old French -ange, -enc, -inge, -inghe (“-ing”) for Old French -age (“-age”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?s.n?.d???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?s.n?.d???/
- Hyphenation: mes?sen?ger
Noun
messenger (plural messengers)
- One who brings messages.
- (nautical) A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
- The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
- (law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.
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- (computing) An instant messenger program.
- A forerunner.
- A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.
- A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.
- (oceanography) A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.
- The secretary bird.
- (Scotland) A messenger-at-arms.
Derived terms
- instant messenger
- raven-messenger
Translations
Verb
messenger (third-person singular simple present messengers, present participle messengering, simple past and past participle messengered)
- (transitive) To send something by messenger.
- I'll messenger over the signed documents.
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missile
English
Etymology
From Latin missilis (“that may be thrown”), neuter missile (“a weapon to be thrown, a javelin”), in plural missilia (“presents thrown among the people by the emperors”), from mittere (“to send”). From 1611. Compare Middle French missile (“projectile”), from 1636.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: m?s??l, IPA(key): /?m?sa?l/
- (US, Canada) enPR: m?s??l, m?s??l, IPA(key): /?m?sa?l/, /?m?s?l/
- Rhymes: -?sa?l, -?s?l
Noun
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.
- (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
- missileer
Related terms
- mess
- message
- messenger
- mission
- missionary
- missive
Translations
See also
- projectile
- rocket
Further reading
- missile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- missile in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- 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 15566697, page 540, column 3.
Anagrams
- mislies, similes, slimies, smilies
French
Etymology
From Middle French, from Latin missilis (“that may be thrown”) (as in English).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.sil/
Noun
missile m (plural missiles)
- missile
Derived terms
- missile à tête chercheuse
Further reading
- “missile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mis.si.le/
- Rhymes: -issile
Noun
missile m (plural missili)
- missile
Adjective
missile (plural missili)
- (relational) missile
Latin
Etymology
From missilis.
Noun
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.
- USA, Britannia, Francia mane Sabbati plus centum missilia in tres metas Syriacas miserunt, in quibus arma chemica conficiebantur et tractabantur.
- 2018, Tuomo Pekkanen, Foederatio occidentalis Syriam missilibus percussit [1], Nuntii Latini 20.4.2018:
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Synonyms
- (javelin): t?lum, iaculum
Adjective
missile
- nominative neuter singular of missilis
- accusative neuter singular of missilis
- vocative neuter singular of missilis
References
- 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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