missile

From French missile, 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”).

• (UK) enPR: mĭsʹīl, IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsaɪl/
• (US, Canada) enPR: mĭsʹīl, mĭsʹəl, IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsaɪl/, /ˈmɪsəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪsaɪl, -ɪsəl

missile (plural missiles)

1. Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet.

   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.

   That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.

• mess
• message
• messenger
• mission
• missionary
• missive

• projectile
• rocket

• missile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• missile in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

• mislies, similes, slimies, smilies

• IPA^(key): /mi.sil/

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missile m (plural missiles)

1. missile

• “missile” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• Rhymes: -issile

missile m (plural missili)

1. missile

missile (masculine and feminine plural missili)

1. missile (attributive)

From missilis.

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 , 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.

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

• (javelin): tēlum

missile

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

• 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