mitrailleuse

English

The Montigny mitrailleuse, c. 1870

Etymology

From French mitrailleuse, from mitrailler (“to fire grapeshot”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌmiːtɹəˈjɜz/, /ˈmiːtɹəˌjɜz/

Noun

mitrailleuse (plural mitrailleuses)

1. (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

• mitraille
• mitraillade
• mitrailleur

Translations

rapidly firing breech loading gun with multiple barrels

• Finnish: mitraljöösi, kuularuisku (fi)
• Greek: μυδραλιοβόλο (el) n (mydraliovólo), μυδραλλιοβόλον (el) n (mydralliovólon)
• Russian: митралье́за (ru) f (mitralʹjéza), карте́чница (ru) f (kartéčnica)
• Spanish: metrallera f

Further reading

• mitrailleuse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From mitrailler +‎ -euse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.tʁa.jøz/ ~ /mi.tʁɑ.jøz/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

mitrailleuse f (plural mitrailleuses)

1. machine gun

   Coordinate terms: fusil-mitrailleur (“light machine gun”), mitraillette (“submachine gun”)

Descendants

• → Haitian Creole: mitrayèz
• → English: mitrailleuse
• → Finnish: mitraljöösi
• → Ottoman Turkish: مترالیوز (mitralyöz)
  • Turkish: mitralyöz
• → Portuguese: metralhadora (calque)
• → Serbo-Croatian: mitraljez

Noun

mitrailleuse f (plural mitrailleuses)

1. female equivalent of mitrailleur (“machine-gunner”)

Further reading

• “mitrailleuse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.