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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin torp?d? (“a torpedo fish; numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpe? (“I am stiff, numb, torpid; I am astounded; I am inactive”) +? -?d? (noun suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”).

Cognate with Old English steorfan (“to die”), Ancient Greek ??????? (stereós, “solid”), Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic ??????? (trupeti).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??(?)?pi?.d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t???pi.do?/
• Hyphenation: tor?pe?do
• Rhymes: -i?d??

Noun

torpedo (plural torpedoes or torpedos)

1. An electric ray of the genus Torpedo.
   • 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:

     The man has been changed into an artificial monster by the station in which he is born, and the consequent homage that benumbed his faculties like the torpedo's touch […] .

2. (military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
   1. (science fiction) A similar projectile that can travel through space.
3. (regional) A submarine sandwich.
4. (archaic, military) A naval mine.
5. (obsolete, military) An explosive device buried underground and set off remotely, to destroy fortifications, troops, or cavalry; a land torpedo.
6. (slang) A professional gunman or assassin.
7. (rail transport, US) A small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
8. A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
9. An automobile with a torpedo body.
10. (slang, chiefly US, usually in the plural) A woman's shoe with a pointed toe. [1910s]
11. (slang, chiefly US, usually in the plural) A large breast; breast with a large nipple. [from 1960s]
12. (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
    1. A thick marijuana cigarette. [1940s]
    2. A cigarette containing marijuana and crack cocaine. [from 1980s]

Synonyms

• (sandwich): see sub
• (rail transport): detonator (UK)
• (an explosive underwater projectile): torp (abbreviation), fish

Derived terms

• torpedo body
• torpedo roll
• torpedo stern
• land torpedo
• spar torpedo
• torp (abbreviation)

Related terms

• torpid

Translations

Verb

torpedo (third-person singular simple present torpedoes, present participle torpedoing, simple past and past participle torpedoed)

1. To send a torpedo, usually from a submarine, that explodes below the waterline of the target ship.
2. To sink a ship with one of more torpedoes.
3. To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a stealthy, powerful attack.

Translations

Anagrams

• optrode, pet door, toe drop, trooped

Cebuano

Etymology

From English torpedo, borrowed from Latin torp?d? (“a torpedo fish; numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpe? (“I am stiff, numb, torpid; I am astounded; I am inactive”) +? -?d? (noun suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tor?pe?do

Noun

torpedo

1. (military) a torpedo; a cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin torp?d? (“a torpedo fish”), from torp?d? (“numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpe? (“I am stiff, numb, torpid; I am astounded; I am inactive”) and -d? (“noun suffix”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”), see also Old English steorfan (“to die”), Ancient Greek ??????? (stereós, “solid”), Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic ??????? (trupeti)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?r?pe?.do?/
• Hyphenation: tor?pe?do

Noun

torpedo f or m (plural torpedo's, diminutive torpedootje n)

1. A torpedo (projectile adapted for underwater use).
2. (dated) A low-lying streamlined car.

Derived terms

• torpedoboot

Related terms

• torpederen

Finnish

Alternative forms

• torpeedo (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?torpe(?)do/, [?t?o?rpe?(?)do?]
• Rhymes: -orpedo
• Syllabification: tor?pe?do

Noun

torpedo

1. torpedo (self-propelled cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater)

Declension

Derived terms

• torpedoida
• torpedovene

Italian

Noun

torpedo f (invariable)

1. tourer (motorcar)

See also

• torpedine

Anagrams

• deporto, deportò

Latin

Etymology

torpe? (“I am stiff or numb”) +? -?d?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tor?pe?.do?/, [t??r?pe?d?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tor?pe.do/, [t??r?p??d??]

Noun

torp?d? f (genitive torp?dinis); third declension

1. lethargy, inertness, sluggishness
2. torpedo fish

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• torpedo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• torpedo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• torpedo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin torpedo, via English torpedo or German Torpedo

Noun

torpedo m (definite singular torpedoen, indefinite plural torpedoer, definite plural torpedoene)

1. a torpedo

Derived terms

• torpedere

References

• “torpedo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin torpedo, via English torpedo or German Torpedo

Noun

torpedo m (definite singular torpedoen, indefinite plural torpedoar, definite plural torpedoane)

1. a torpedo

Derived terms

• torpedere

References

• “torpedo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin torp?d? (“a torpedo fish”), from torp?d? (“numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpe? (“I am stiff, numb, torpid; I am astounded; I am inactive”) and -d? (“noun suffix”). Compare torpor.

Pronunciation

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /to?.?pe.do/

Noun

torpedo m (plural torpedos)

1. torpedo (submarine weapon)
2. (Brazil) SMS (a text message sent on a cell phone)

Related terms

• torpedagem, torpedear, torpedeamento, torpedeiro

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /torp??do/
• Hyphenation: tor?pe?do

Noun

torpédo m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. torpedo

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin torp?d? (“a torpedo fish”).

Pronunciation

Noun

torpedo m (plural torpedos)

1. torpedo (fish)

   Synonyms: raya torpedo, raya negra, raya eléctrica

2. torpedo (weapon)

Derived terms

• lanzatorpedos
• cazatorpedos
• torpedear

Further reading

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

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)

1. 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.

2. (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)

1. 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)

1. missile

Adjective

missile (plural missili)

1. (relational) missile

Latin

Etymology

From missilis.

Noun

missile n (genitive missilis); third declension

1. a thrown weapon, such as a javelin
2. (plural) presents from the Emperor thrown to the people
3. (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.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Synonyms

• (javelin): t?lum, iaculum

Adjective

missile

1. nominative neuter singular of missilis
2. accusative neuter singular of missilis
3. 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