different between trebuchet vs ballista

English

Alternative forms

• trepeget (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French trebuchet, trebuket et al. (modern trébuchet), from trebuchier (“to overthrow, topple”), from tre- + *buchier, from Old French buc (“trunk of the body”), from Old Frankish *b?k (“belly, trunk, torso”), from Proto-Germanic *b?kaz (“belly, abdomen, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??w- (“to blow, swell”). Cognate with Old High German b?h (“belly”), Old English b?c (“belly, trunk”). More at bouk.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??b???t/, /?t??b.j?.?e?/, /?t??b.ju.?e?/
• (US) enPR: tr?b’yo?o-shet, IPA^(key): /?t??b.ju???t/, /?t??b.j???e?/

Noun

trebuchet (plural trebuchets)

1. A medieval siege engine consisting of a large pivoting arm heavily weighted on one end.

   Hypernym: catapult

   Coordinate terms: onager, mangonel
2. A torture device for dunking suspected witches by means of a chair attached to the end of a long pole.

Translations

Further reading

• trebuchet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Burchette

Old French

Etymology

From the verb trebuchier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /treby?t??t/

Noun

trebuchet m (oblique plural trebuchez or trebuchetz, nominative singular trebuchez or trebuchetz, nominative plural trebuchet)

1. trebuchet, bird trap
2. fall (instance of falling)
3. place where a fall occurs
4. trap; ambush

Descendants

• English: trebuchet
• French: trébuchet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ballista, from Ancient Greek ????????? (ballístra), from ????? (báll?, “I throw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??l?st?/

Noun

ballista (plural ballistas or ballistae or ballistæ)

1. (weaponry, historical) An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.

Translations

See also

• catapult

Finnish

Etymology

< Latin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?l?ist?/, [?b?l?is?t??]
• Rhymes: -?l?ist?
• Syllabification: bal?lis?ta

Noun

ballista

1. ballista (military engine)

Declension

See also

• varsijousi
• ballista on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fi

Latin

Alternative forms

• balista
• ballistra

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (ballístra), from ????? (báll?, “I throw”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /bal?lis.ta/, [bäl??l??s?t?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bal?lis.ta/, [b?l?list??]
• Homophone: Ballista

Noun

ballista f (genitive ballistae); first declension

1. ballista

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• arcuballista
• ballist?rius
• ballistica
• carroballista

Descendants

See also

• catapulta
• onager

References

• ballista in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ballista in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ballista in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ballista in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• ballista in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ballista in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin