missile

English

A selection of missiles (military)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French missile, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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”).

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -ɪsaɪl, -ɪsəl

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.

   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.

Related terms

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

Translations

air-based weapon

• Arabic: قَذِيفَة f (qaḏīfa)
• Armenian: արկ (hy) (ark)
• Catalan: projectil (ca) m
• Czech: střela (cs) f
• Finnish: heittoase (fi), ammus (fi)
• French: projectile (fr) m
• Georgian: რაკეტა (raḳeṭa)
• German: Geschoss (de) n, Fluggeschoss n
• Greek: βλήμα (el) n (vlíma)

  Ancient: βέλος n (bélos)

• Hebrew: רָקֶטָה (he) f (raketa)
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• Hungarian: rakéta (hu), lövedék (hu)
• Icelandic: eldflaug (is) f
• Irish: arm diúractha m, diúracán m
• Japanese: 弾丸 (だんがん, dangan), 飛び道具 (とび-どうぐ, tobi-dōgu)
• Polish: pocisk (pl) m
• Portuguese: míssil (pt) m
• Romanian: proiectil (ro) n
• Russian: раке́та (ru) f (rakéta), снаря́д (ru) m (snarjád)
• Scottish Gaelic: urchair f
• Spanish: proyectil (es) m
• Swedish: missil (sv) c
• Welsh: teflyn (cy) m

self-propelled, guidable projectile

• Albanian: raketë (sq) f
• Arabic: صَارُوخ m (ṣārūḵ), قَذِيفَة f (qaḏīfa)
• Armenian: հրթիռ (hy) (hrtʻiṙ)
• Azerbaijani: raket (az)
• Belarusian: раке́та f (rakjéta)
• Bengali: ক্ষেপণাস্ত্র (kheponastro), মিসাইল (miśail)
• Bulgarian: раке́та (bg) f (rakéta)
• Burmese: ဒုံးပျံ (my) (dum:pyam)
• Catalan: míssil
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飛彈／飞弹 (zh) (fēidàn), 飞弹 (zh) (fēidàn), 導彈／导弹 (zh) (dǎodàn), 导弹 (zh) (dǎodàn)

• Czech: střela (cs) f
• Danish: missil (da)
• Dutch: raket (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: raketo (eo)
• Estonian: rakett
• Finnish: ohjus (fi)
• French: missile (fr) m
• Galician: mísil m
• Georgian: ყუმბარა (q̇umbara), მართული ყუმბარა (martuli q̇umbara), რაკეტა (raḳeṭa)
• German: Lenkflugkörper m, Lenkwaffe f
• Greek: πύραυλος (el) m (pýravlos)
• Hebrew: טִיל (he) m (til)
• Hindi: प्रक्षेपास्त्र (prakṣepāstra), राकेट (rākeṭ), मिसाइल (misāil)
• Hungarian: rakéta (hu), lövedék (hu)
• Ido: misilo
• Irish: diúracán m
• Italian: missile (it)
• Japanese: ミサイル (ja) (misairu), 誘導弾 (ゆうどうだん, yūdōdan) (guided missile)
• Kazakh: ракета (raketa)
• Khmer: កាំជ្រួច (km) (kamcruəc)
• Korean: 미사일 (ko) (misail), 유도탄 (ko) (yudotan) (guided missile), 미싸일 (ko) (missail) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Kyrgyz: ракета (ky) (raketa)
• Lao: ບັ້ງໄຟ (bang fai), ຈະລວດ (cha lūat), ຈະຣວດ (cha rūat)
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• Latvian: raķete f
• Lithuanian: raketa (lt) f
• Macedonian: раке́та f (rakéta)
• Malay: peluru berpandu
• Marathi: क्षेपणास्त्र n (kṣepṇāstra)
• Mongolian: пуужин (mn) (puužin)
• Norwegian: missil
• Pashto: مزایل m (mazāyél)
• Persian: موشک (fa) (mušak)
• Polish: rakieta (pl) f
• Portuguese: míssil (pt) m
• Romanian: rachetă (ro) f
• Russian: раке́та (ru) f (rakéta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ракета f

  Roman: raketa (sh) f

• Sinhalese: මිසයිල (misayila)
• Slovak: strela f, raketa f
• Slovene: raketa (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wóźeńska broń f

• Spanish: misil (es) m
• Swedish: raket (sv) c, robot (sv) c
• Tajik: ракета (raketa)
• Thai: ขีปนาวุธ (kǐi-bpà-naa-wút), จรวด (th) (jà-rùuat)
• Tibetan: ཕུར་མདེལ (phur mdel)
• Turkish: füze (tr)
• Turkmen: raketa
• Ukrainian: раке́та f (rakéta)
• Urdu: راکٹ (rākeṭ), میزائل (misā'il)
• Uyghur: راكېتا (rakëta)
• Uzbek: raketa (uz)
• Vietnamese: tên lửa (vi)
• Welsh: taflegryn (cy) m
• Yiddish: ראַקעט m (raket)

See also

• projectile
• rocket

Further reading

• “missile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “missile”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• mislies, similes, slimies, smilies

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.sil/

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Noun

missile m (plural missiles)

1. missile

Further reading

• “missile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -issile

Noun

missile m (plural missili)

1. missile

Adjective

1. missile (attributive)

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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).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	missile	missilia
Genitive	missilis	missilium
Dative	missilī	missilibus
Accusative	missile	missilia
Ablative	missilī	missilibus
Vocative	missile	missilia

Synonyms

• (javelin): tēlum

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) 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.