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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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missive
English
Etymology
15th Century; from Medieval Latin missivus, from mittere (“to send”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?m?s?v/
Noun
missive (plural missives)
- (formal) A written message; a letter, note or memo.
- 2008, Claire Armistead, The Guardian, 25 Oct 2008:
- The Madonna letters, which are interspersed with more personal missives in this curious epistolary memoir, accumulate into a rap about the downsides of celebrity - the problems of ageing, of invaded privacy, of becoming vain and impetuously adopting children from other continents.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 71:
- "Curses throttle thee!" yelled Ahab. "Captain Mayhew, stand by now to receive it"; and taking the fatal missive from Starbuck's hands, he caught it in the slit of the pole, and reached it over towards the boat.
- 2008, Claire Armistead, The Guardian, 25 Oct 2008:
- (in the plural, Scotland, law) Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.
- (obsolete) One who is sent; a messenger.
- c. 1606: Macbeth by Shakespeare
- Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it came missives from the King, who all hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor,’ by which title these Weird Sisters saluted me and referred me to the coming on of time with ‘Hail king that shalt be.’
- c. 1606: Macbeth by Shakespeare
Translations
Adjective
missive (not comparable)
- Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.
- a letter missive
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ayliffe to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Serving as a missile; intended to be thrown.
- 1700, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia
- The missive weapons fly.
- 1700, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia
Related terms
- See mission for terms etymologically related to send
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “missive”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
French
Pronunciation
Noun
missive f (plural missives)
- missive
Italian
Noun
missive f
- plural of missiva
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