mitraille
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.