mitraille
See also: mitraillé
English
Etymology
From Old French mitaille (“small coins; hence scrap iron, old iron; then grapeshot”); originally diminutive of mite (“small coin”). See also mitrailleur.
Noun
mitraille (uncountable)
- (military, historical) shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon
Synonyms
- grapeshot
Related terms
- mitraillade
- mitrailleur
- mitrailleuse
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.tʁaj/
Etymology 1
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
mitraille f (plural mitrailles)
- grapeshot
- (informal) dosh, dough (money)
Derived terms
- mitrailler
Descendants
- → Catalan: metralla
- → Galician: metralla
- → Italian: mitraglia
- → Portuguese: metralha
- → Spanish: metralla
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
mitraille
- inflection of mitrailler:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “mitraille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.