From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], neuter of [la], from [la]. From 1611. Compare [frm], from
1636.
*** Pronunciation
- [mĭsʹīl] , [en]
- [mĭsʹīl] , [en]
- [en] [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone , arrow or bullet . [17]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1865 | author=w:Walt Whitman | title=Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems | chapter= 吴语: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
|passage=And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds
of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with
MISSILES I saw them, / And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn
and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in
silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken.}}
1. * 2012 , Paragraph 24, R v Blackshaw (2012) WLR 1126 (see https://www.bailii..org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2011/2312.html) :
2. *: Riot officers and police on horseback were deployed to disperse the crowns [crowds] , but they came under attack from bottles, fireworks and other MISSILES .
3. [en] A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched. [20]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|antimissile|hypermissile|missilelike|missileman|missileproof|missilery|nonmissile|submissile|supermissile
|Euromissile |missileer |air-to-air missile|air-to-surface
missile|anti-ballistic missile|anti-ship missile|antiballistic
missile|antiship missile|ballistic missile|cruise missile|guided
missile|intercontinental ballistic missile|missile farm|TOW missile|missile
gap|missile silo|Patriot missile|steely-eyed missile man|surface-to-air
missile|surface-to-surface missile}}
**** Related terms
{{col|en |mess |message |messenger |mission |missionary |missive }}
**** Translations
[air-based weapon]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] [bullet]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] [bullet]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Japanese: [ja] [bullet]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Korean: [ko] [bullet]
- Latin: [la]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [bullet]
- Sanskrit: [sa] , [sa]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] [bullet]
- Welsh: [cy]
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[self-propelled, guidable projectile]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesia: [id] , [id] , [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] [guided missile]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] [guided missile] , [ko] [North Korea]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo] , [lo] , [lo]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] ( [vi] )
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
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**** See also
- [en]
- [en]
**** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [volume=VI]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr], from [fr] (as in English).
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en]
2. [fr] bombshell , hottie
**** Derived terms
- [fr]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
[fr]
** Italian
*** Pronunciation
[mìssile]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en]
*** Adjective
[it-adj]
1. [it] [en]
[it]
** Latin
*** Etymology
From [la].
*** Noun
[missile <3>]
1. a thrown weapon, such as a javelin
2. (plural) presents from the Emperor thrown to the people
3. [la] a [en] [self-propelled projectile]
4. * 2018 , Tuomo Pekkanen, _Foederatio occidentalis Syriam missilibus percussit_ see https://areena.yle.fi/1-4377543 , Nuntii Latini 20.4.2018:
5. *: {{ quote | la | USA, Britannia, Francia mane Sabbati plus centum MISSILIA in tres metas Syriacas miserunt, in quibus arma chemica conficiebantur et tractabantur.
|translation=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
[missile <3>]
**** Synonyms
- [javelin] [la] , [la]
*** Adjective
[la]
1. [la]
*** References
- [1=missilis]
- [1=missilis]
- [R:Gaffiot]