different between projectile vs projicient

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin pr?iectilis (“projectile”), from Latin pr?iectus, perfect passive participle of pr?ici? (“throw forth; extend; expel”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??(?)?d??kt??l/, /p??(?)?d??kt?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p???d??k.ta?l/, /p???d??k.tl?/
• Hyphenation: pro?ject?ile

Noun

projectile (plural projectiles)

1. an object intended to be or having been fired from a weapon.
2. (physics) any object propelled through space by the application of a force.

Translations

See also

• missile
• rocket

Adjective

projectile (not comparable)

1. Projecting or impelling forward.

   a projectile force; a projectile weapon

2. Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward.

   projectile motion

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Arbuthnot to this entry?)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.??k.til/

Noun

projectile m (plural projectiles)

1. projectile

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???nt

Noun

projicient (plural projicients)

1. (obsolete) Someone or something that launches a projectile.
   • 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)

     The project separated from the projicient, continueth the motion by vertue impressed on it by the said projicient.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “projicient”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Latin

Verb

pr?jicient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of pr?jici?