fusil
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfjuːzɪl/
Audio (UK) (file)
Etymology 1
From Old French fusel, fuisel, from a late Latin diminutive of Latin fūsus (“spindle”).
Noun
fusil (plural fusils)
- (heraldry) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge.
Translations
heraldic feature
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Etymology 2
From Middle French fusil, ultimately from Latin focus (“hearth; fire”). Doublet of fusee.
Noun
fusil (plural fusils)
- (now historical) A light flintlock musket or firelock.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 43, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:
- [H]e out of meer wantonness attempted to trip up the heels of the soldier that stood next him, but failed in the execution, and received a blow of his breast with the butt end of a fusil, that made him stagger several paces backward.
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Synonyms
- fusee
Translations
weapon
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Etymology 3
Alternative forms.
Adjective
fusil (comparative more fusil, superlative most fusil)
- Obsolete spelling of fusile
- 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- what might else be wrought / Fusil or grav'n in metal
- 1708, John Philips, Cyder, book II, London: J. Tonson, page 70:
- A fusil sea.
- 1728, J[ohn] Woodward, “A Catalogue of the Second Addition of English Native Fossils”, in A Catalogue of the Additional English Native Fossils, in the Collection of J. Woodward M.D., tome II, London: […] F[rancis] Fayram, […]; J[ohn] Senex, […]; and J. Osborn and T[homas] Longman, […], OCLC 1190985093, page 91:
- Part of one of thoſe round Pillars that are commonly ſuppos'd to be fuſil marble: but not truly; this being of the common Suſſex Marble, full of Sea-Shells.
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French
Etymology
From Old French fuisil, foisil, from Vulgar Latin *focīlis (petra), from Latin focus. Compare Italian fucile.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fy.zi/
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Noun
fusil m (plural fusils)
- rifle, gun
- steel to strike sparks from a flint (pierre à fusil)
Derived terms
- changer son fusil d'épaule
- coup de fusil
- en chien de fusil
- fusil à canon scié
- fusil d'assaut
- fusil de chasse
- fusilier
- fusillade
- fusiller
- fusil-mitrailleur
- la fleur au fusil
- pierre à fusil
Descendants
- Saint Dominican Creole French: fisil
- → Catalan: fusell
- → Spanish: fusil
- → Portuguese: fuzil
Further reading
- “fusil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French fusil.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fuˈsil/ [fuˈsil]
- Rhymes: -il
- Syllabification: fu‧sil
Noun
fusil m (plural fusiles)
- rifle
- Synonym: rifle
Derived terms
- fusil de asalto
- fusilamiento
- fusilería
- fusilar
- fusilador
Descendants
- → Cebuano: pusil
- → Western Bukidnon Manobo: pusil
- → Ilocano: pusil
Further reading
- “fusil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014