fusil
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See also: fúsil
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfjuːzɪl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Etymology 1
From Middle English fusill, 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.
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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, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- [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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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], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- what might else be wrought / Fusil or grav'n in metal
- 1708, [John Philips], “Book II”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, 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, 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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Etymology
From Old French fuisil, foisil, from Vulgar Latin *focīlis (petra), from Latin focus. Compare Italian fucile.
Pronunciation
Noun
fusil m (plural fusils)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “fusil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
fusil m (plural fusiles)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “fusil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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