英文词源
- missile (n.)
- "thing thrown or discharged as a weapon," is 1650s, from missile (adj.), 1610s, "capable of being thrown," chiefly in phrase missile weapon, from French missile and directly from Latin missilis "that may be thrown or hurled" (also, in plural, as a noun, "weapons that can be thrown, darts, javelins"), from missus "a throwing, hurling," past participle of mittere "to send" (see mission). Sense of "self-propelled rocket or bomb" is first recorded 1738; the modern remote guidance projectile so called from 1945.
中文词源
来自拉丁语mittere,送出，发射，词源同emit,commit,-ss,过去分词后缀。引申词义发射物，导弹。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：missile 词源，missile 含义。
词根词缀： -miss-送,派 + -ile名词词尾
