# fusil
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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.

##### Translations
### 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.

##### Synonyms

* fusee

##### Translations
### 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.

## French
### Etymology

From Old French fuisil, foisil, from Vulgar Latin *focīlis (petra), from Latin focus. Compare Italian fucile.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fy.zi/
* Audio; “un fusil”:(file)

### Noun

fusil m (plural fusils)
* rifle, gun
* steel to strike sparks from a flint (pierre à fusil)

#### Derived terms

* changer son fusil d’épaule
* coup de fusil
* en chien de fusil
* fusil à canon scié
* fusil de chasse
* fusil d’assaut
* fusil-mitrailleur
* fusilier
* fusillade
* fusiller
* la fleur au fusil
* pierre à fusil

#### Descendants

* Saint Dominican Creole French: fisil
** Haitian Creole: fizi
* → Louisiana Creole: fizi
* → Catalan: fusell
* → Spanish: fusil
* → Portuguese: fuzil

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French fusil.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fuˈsil/ [fuˈsil]
* Rhymes: -il
* Syllabification: fu‧sil

### Noun

fusil m (plural fusiles)
* rifle
    Synonym: rifle

#### Derived terms

* fusil de asalto
* fusil de repetición
* fusilador
* fusilamiento
* fusilar
* fusilería
* pólvora de fusil

#### Descendants

* → Cebuano: pusil
** → Western Bukidnon Manobo: pusil
* → Ilocano: pusil

### 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