mitraille
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See also: mitraillé
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French mitaille (“small coins; hence scrap iron, old iron; then grapeshot”); originally diminutive of mite (“small coin”). See also mitrailleur.
Noun[edit]
mitraille (uncountable)
- (military, historical) shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon
Synonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old French mitaille (“small coins; hence scrap iron, old iron; then grapeshot”); originally diminutive of mite (“small coin”), from Old Dutch mite (“something small”), from Proto-Germanic *mītǭ (“biting insect”, literally “cutter”), from *maitaną (“to cut”).
Noun[edit]
mitraille f (plural mitrailles)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Catalan: metralla
- → Galician: metralla
- → Italian: mitraglia
- → Portuguese: metralha
- → Sicilian: mitragghia
- → Spanish: metralla
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
mitraille
- inflection of mitrailler:
Further reading[edit]
- “mitraille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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