mitrailleuse
English edit
Etymology edit
French mitrailleuse, from mitrailler (“to fire grapeshot”).
Pronunciation edit
IPA(key): /ˌmiːtɹəˈjɜz/, /ˈmiːtɹəˌjɜz/
Noun edit
mitrailleuse (plural mitrailleuses)
- (historical, military) A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
rapidly firing breech loading gun with multiple barrels
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Further reading edit
- mitrailleuse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French edit
Etymology edit
From mitrailler + -euse.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mitrailleuse f (plural mitrailleuses)
- machine gun
- Coordinate terms: fusil-mitrailleur (“light machine gun”), mitraillette (“submachine gun”)
Descendants edit
- → English: mitrailleuse
- → Finnish: mitraljöösi
- → Ottoman Turkish: مترالیوز (mitralyöz)
- Turkish: mitralyöz
- → Portuguese: metralhadora (calque)
- → Serbo-Croatian: mitraljez
Noun edit
mitrailleuse f (plural mitrailleuses)
- female equivalent of mitrailleur (“machine-gunner”)
Further reading edit
- “mitrailleuse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.