Etymology

missile

mis·sile
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Today it means: Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet. Full definition →

Latin missile
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  1. Latin · borrowed frommissile“thrown weapon, projectile”
  2. English todaymissile

From Latin missile (“thrown weapon, projectile”), neuter of missilis (“throwable, capable of being thrown”), from mittere (“to send”). From 1611. Compare Middle French missile (“projectile”), from 1636.

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