cadence

en-noun

cadence (countable and uncountable, plural cadences)

Borrowed from Middle French cadence, from Old Italian cadenza (“conclusion of a phrase of music”), from Latin *cadentia (literally “a falling”), form of cadēns, the present participle of cadō (“I fall, I cease”). The Latin verb is inherited, via Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱad-e- (“to fall”, thematic present). Doublet of cadenza and chance.

závěr

(music) chord progression concluding a section or piece

(fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.

rytmi

(fencing) series of actions’ rhythm and sequence

(military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.


sharpshooter

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sharp + shooter, a calque of German Scharfschütze.

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling) A submission hold characterized by one wrestler twisting the other's legs upwards while sitting on their back.


culminate

en-verb

culminate (third-person singular simple present culminates, present participle culminating, simple past and past participle culminated)

culminates (present singular third-person)
culminating (participle present)
culminated (participle past)
culminated (past)

First attested in 1647; borrowed from Medieval Latin culminātus, perfect passive participle of culminō (“to crown”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin culmen (“peak, the highest point”), older form columen (“top, summit”), from Proto-Italic *kolamen, from a Proto-Indo-European base *kol-, *kelH- (“to project, rise; peak, summit, top”), whence also English hill and holm.

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Approaching from the south on foot, elements of the CG battalion were first to come into contact and their attack culminated because the rate and accuracy of the VC small arms fire. The CG battalions attempted two assaults to penetrate[…]

2014 August 15, Major Kevin R. Kilbride, Military Assistance Advisory Group-Vietnam (1954-1963): The Battle Of Ap Bac, Pickle Partners Publishing, →ISBN:

As a result, the attack culminated the first day without additional artillery support. The towns of Eclisfontaine and Epinonville were not held on the first day as originally directed in the Corps plan.

2014 August 15, Major Bryan L. Woodcock, 91st Infantry In World War I--Analysis Of An AEF Division's Efforts To Achieve Battlefield Success [Illustrated Edition], Pickle Partners Publishing, →ISBN, page 33:

(US, military, of an offensive, etc) To reach a point at which continued progress is not possible.


action group

(US military) A component of a naval task force.


Flanke

de-noun

Flanke f (genitive Flanke, plural Flanken)

Flanke (genitive)
Flanken (plural)
Flanke (nominative singular)
Flanken (definite nominative plural)
Flanke (genitive singular)
Flanken (definite genitive plural)
Flanke (dative singular)
Flanken (dative definite plural)
Flanke (accusative singular)
Flanken (accusative definite plural)

Ca. 1600, from French flanc, from Old French flanc, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō. Doublet of now obsolete Lanke, which likely influenced the form and gender of the borrowing; analogy with Seite may also have contributed.

(military, ball games) flank (side of the field)


sortie

PIE word
 *upó
The noun is borrowed from French sortie (“act of exiting; exit, way out; (military) sally, sortie”), the feminine past participle of sortir (“to exit, go out”), from Old French sortir, from Latin sortīrī, the present active infinitive of sortior (“to cast or draw lots; to choose, select; to distribute, divide; to obtain, receive; to share”), from sors (“something used to determine chances, a lot; casting or drawing of lots; decision by lot; a share”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, tie together; a thread”)), possibly influenced by surrēctus (“arisen, having been caused to arise; gotten up, having been gotten up”), the perfect passive participle of surgō (“to arise, get up, rise”), from subrigō (“to lift up; to straighten”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + regō (“to direct, guide, steer; to govern, rule; to manage, oversee”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to right oneself, straighten; just; right”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.

scramble

emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft

The events of these sieges show that a bold and vigorous sortie in force might carry destruction through every part of a besieger's approaches, where the guard is injudiciously disposed and ill commanded; but that if due precautions have been observed in forming the approaches and posting the defenders, any sortie from a besieged place must be checked with loss in their advance, when the approaches are still distant; or when the approaches are near, should a sortie succeed in pushing into them by a sudden rush, the assailants must inevitably be driven out again in a moment, with terrible slaughter.

1827, John T[homas] Jones, “[Notes.] Note 35 [Observations on the Several Sorties Made by the Garrisons of the Places Besieged in Spain].”, in Journals of Sieges Carried on by the Army under the Duke of Wellington, in Spain, between the Years 1811 and 1814. […], volume II, London: […] [C. Roworth] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 369:

(military, also attributively and figuratively)

An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally.

Their aircraft had no belly gunners and were at the mercy of Luftwaffe fighters that attacked from below. Whenever they lifted off on a mission, they departed with the knowledge that this sortie could easily be their last.

2019 May 8, Aron Heller, “These Jewish World War II Veterans Would Be Legends, if People Knew Their Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

They are vastly outnumbered: Russia is believed to fly some 200 sorties per day while Ukraine flies five to 10.

2022 March 22, Maria Varenikova, Andrew E. Kramer, “How Ukraine’s Outgunned Air Force Is Fighting Back Against Russian Jets”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(aviation) An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.

sortie

[I]t was all encompassed by the palisades and breastworks, to which were but three sorties, whence the defenders might sally, or through which at need the vanguard might secure a retreat.

1848, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VII, in Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings; […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, book XII (The Field of Hastings), pages 331–332:

(military) Synonym of sally port (“an entry to or opening into a fortification to enable a sally”).


sortie

→ Ottoman Turkish: صورتی (sorti)

Turkish: sorti

Feminine past participle of sortir; from Latin sortīrī (“cast lots, divide, receive”), possibly influenced by a derivative of surgō (“get up, arise”). Compare Italian sortire (“produce”).


Stinger

surface-to-air missile
surface-to-air missile

(military) The FIM-92 portable infra-red homing surface-to-air missile.


Hagel

de-noun

Hagel m (strong, genitive Hagels, no plural)

Hagels (genitive)
Hagel (nominative singular)
Hagels (genitive singular)
Hagel (dative singular)
Hagel (accusative singular)

From Middle High German hagel, from Old High German hagal, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz.

(historical, firearms) small-shot, hail-shot


APC

Sill waved for an armored vehicle to come up from the rear. It was an APC with a small cannon on the top.

2022, Percival Everett, Dr. No, Influx Press (2023), page 264:

armored personnel carrier
armored personnel carrier#English

(military) Initialism of armored personnel carrier.


APC

(military) Initialism of armor piercing capped.


gunship

Roger that, Hocus. Friendly gunship, coming in hot!

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Sierra 117:

armoured fighting vehicle
armoured fighting vehicle

(US, air force, military) A transport airplane equipped with large calibre guns typical of armoured fighting vehicles


depth charge

The trailblazing Oaxacan chef Alejandro Ruiz […] has spiked this black-bean sauce with a hidden depth charge of flavor: patches of foliage from a local avocado tree. The leaves electrify the sauce with an unexpected thrum of black licorice.

2014 October 25, Jeff Gordinier, “In search of the perfect taco”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine (international edition), page 100:

(military, nautical, aviation) A form of bomb, launched from a ship or dropped from an aircraft, that is designed to detonate at a certain depth underwater for the purposes of attacking a submerged enemy, especially a submarine.

глыбі́нная бо́мба

bomb designed to detonate at a certain depth underwater


depth charge

en-verb

depth charge (third-person singular simple present depth charges, present participle depth charging, simple past and past participle depth charged)

depth charges (present singular third-person)
depth charging (participle present)
depth charged (participle past)
depth charged (past)
depth-charge (alternative)

After the freighter was torpedoed, its escorting destroyers depth charged the submarine for two hours, but failed to sink it.

(transitive, military, nautical, aviation) To attack (a target, usually a submarine) with depth charges.


surface-to-air missile

en-noun

surface-to-air missile (plural surface-to-air missiles)

(military) A ground-based anti-aircraft missile.


air-to-air missile

air-to-air missile (plural air-to-air missiles)

(military) A missile that is fired from an aircraft to attack another aircraft.


backstop

backstops (plural)
back-stop (alternative)

[…] to be set up in Indonesia with a phony book and school supplies company established in New York City as a backstop.

1976, Joseph Burkholder Smith, Portrait of a Cold Warrior, page 116:

Closely representing an alibi, creating a backstop could involve such measures as having people available to verify the details of an agent's cover story.

1990, Bruce W. Watson, Susan M. Watson, Gerald W. Hopple, United States intelligence: an encyclopedia, page 1974:

(espionage) Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.


Stürmer

de-noun

Stürmer m (strong, genitive Stürmers, plural Stürmer, feminine Stürmerin)

Stürmers (genitive)
Stürmer (plural)
Stürmerin (feminine)
Stürmer (nominative singular)
Stürmer (definite nominative plural)
Stürmers (genitive singular)
Stürmer (definite genitive plural)
Stürmer (dative singular)
Stürmern (dative definite plural)
Stürmer (accusative singular)
Stürmer (accusative definite plural)

(military, dated) stormtrooper (soldier who specialises in assault operations)


battalion

From Middle French battaillon (modern French bataillon).

(military) An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment.

(US, military) an army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters; forming part of a brigade.


tradecraft

en-noun

tradecraft (countable and uncountable, plural tradecrafts)

(espionage) The methods used in espionage and clandestine operations.


takedown

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(martial arts) A taking down: an act of bringing one's opponent to the ground by grabbing one or both legs and applying a rearward bending moment.


meathead

From meat + head.
The term meathead is often said to come from the classic 1970s television situation comedy All In The Family, wherein main character Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) used the nickname to address his son-in-law, Michael Stivic (Rob Reiner), starting with the premiere episode ("Meet the Bunkers") that first aired January 12, 1971. The term is also used three times in the "Star Witness" episode of the television situation comedy Green Acres, an episode that first aired January 26, 1971, exactly two weeks after the premiere of All in the Family. However, the word appeared in writing as early as 1863.

(military, slang, Canada) A member of the Canadian Forces Military Police.


big gun

London, Nov. 1: The big guns opened fire on Paris today at mid-day.

1870 December 2, “The Suez Mail”, in Southland Times, number 1342, New Zealand, page 2:

The smaller crew was possible because the battleship was stripped of all but her big guns.

1968 March 26, “Battleship begins Viet Tests”, in Evening News, Newburgh, NY, USA, retrieved 2011-08-19, page 1:

The USS West Virginia became one of many symbols of American resolve. . . . Her big guns pounded the enemy at the battles of Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.

2008 December 6, William J. Bennett, John Cribb, “Deadly resolve answered attack”, in Daily Courier, USA, retrieved 2011-08-19:

(military) A large artillery gun or one of the largest-caliber naval guns (as on a battleship).


slighting

(military) The full or partial demolition of a fortification.


SSI

SSI (countable and uncountable, plural SSIs)

shoulder sleeve insignia
w:shoulder sleeve insignia

(military, US) Initialism of shoulder sleeve insignia.


fairway

(military) A channel either from offshore, in a river, or in a harbor that has enough depth to accommodate the draft of large vessels. (JP 4-01.6)


Percy

Gallo-Roman
Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland

Proper noun sense 1 (surname) and sense 3 (place names) are derived from Norman Percy (“a baronial surname”), from Percy-en-Auge (“a place in Pays d’Auge, Normandy, France”, literally “Percy in Auge”), from Old French Perci, from Late Latin Persiacum, from Latin Persius (“a Gallo-Roman nomen gentile”), from Etruscan 𐌐𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (persu); further etymology uncertain, possibly from 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”).
Proper noun sense 2 (given name) is either from the above, or is a clipping of Perc(ival) + -y (suffix forming familiar names).
The common noun is derived from the proper noun. Sense 2 (“penis”) is probably from the fact that Percy and penis begin with the same letter.

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["]I must admit I'm not terribly good at figures." / "Never met an officer as was," said Sam. "Most of the young Percies in our mob had to take their boots off to count up to twenty. But don't worry about that. Aunty'll give you the figures. She's got 'em all in her head, like a bleedin' adding machine. It's her handwriting and spelling that gets everybody down. It's soddin' awful she can't read it herself five minutes after."

1974, Berkely Mather [pseudonym; John Evan Weston-Davies], chapter 21, in The White Dacoit, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 196:

(military) An educated soldier; specifically, an officer.


bandit

en-noun

bandit (plural bandits or (archaic) banditti)

bandits (plural)
banditti (archaic plural)

Borrowed from Italian bandito (“outlawed”), a derivative of Italian bandire (“to ban”), from Late Latin bandīre, an alteration (due to Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bandwjan, “to signal”)) of Late Latin bannīre (“to ban”), from Frankish *bannan (“to ban”). Doublet of bandito.

(military, aviation) An aircraft identified as an enemy, but distinct from "hostile" or "threat" in that it is not immediately to be engaged.


fatigues

fatigues pl (plural only, attributive fatigue)

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(military) Menial duties, especially as punishment.


korpo

Borrowed from Esperanto korpo, English corps, French corps, German Körper, Italian corpo, Russian ко́рпус (kórpus), Spanish cuerpo, ultimately from Latin corpus.


ARC

(nautical, military) The Colombian Navy (Armada de la República de Colombia).


ARC

(nautical, military, initialism) ship's prefix for warships of the navy of Colombia.


ARC

(Canada, military, aviation) abbreviation of Aviation royale canadienne; RCAF (“Royal Canadian Air Force”)


ARC

A.R.C. (alternative)
A. R. C. (alternative)

(military, nautical) ARC; ship prefix for warships of the navy of Colombia


ARC

English: ARC

(military, nautical) ARC; abbreviation of Armada de la República de Colombia


PFC

en-noun

PFC (countable and uncountable, plural PFCs)

If Steinkamp doesn't take off that hat and stop messing around, I'm gonna bust him into a PFC.

1962, The Manchurian Candidate, 01:56:35

private first class
private first class#English

(military) Initialism of private first class.


hardened

en-adj

hardened (comparative more hardened, superlative most hardened)

more hardened (comparative)
most hardened (superlative)
harden'd (alternative obsolete)

a hardened air base

a hardened server

(computing, military) Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified.


baguette

→ Czech: bageta

→ Danish: baguette

→ English: baguette

→ German: Baguette

→ Greek: μπαγκέτα (bagkéta)

→ Hebrew: בגט (bagét)

→ Korean: 바게트 (bageteu)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: bagett

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: bagett

→ Polish: bagietka

→ Portuguese: baguete

→ Romanian: baghetă

→ Russian: баге́т (bagét)

→ Spanish: baguette

→ Swedish: baguette

→ Turkish: baget

desc

→ Ukrainian: баге́т (bahét), баґе́та (bagéta)

(firearms) gun-stick, rod for stuffing the gun with ammunition


arty

Clipping of artillery, perhaps incorporating the suffix -y forming diminutive nouns.

(military, slang) An artillery crew member.


anti-personnel

An anti-personnel mine will kill a soldier but is ineffective against a tank.

(military) Referring to devices (typically weapons) intended to harm people in particular.


grenadier

From French grenadier, corresponding to grenade + -ier.

(military) A type of soldier, originally one who threw grenades, later a member of a company formed from the tallest men of the regiment; now specifically, a member of the Grenadier Guards of Canada and the United Kingdom.


agen

agèn (canonical)
agen-agen (plural)
agens (alternative)
agén (alternative)
éjén (alternative)

From Dutch agent, from French agent, from Latin agēns. Doublet of agens.

(espionage) someone who works for an intelligence agency


air-to-air

(aviation, military, of a missile) Fired from an aircraft in flight at another one.

vzduch-vzduch

fired from an aircraft in flight at another one


accountable disbursing officer

en-noun

accountable disbursing officer (plural accountable disbursing officers)

accountable disbursing officers (plural)

(military) Any commissioned military officer who receives and disburses public money in his own name for purposes specified by law.


bazooka

→ Arabic: بازوكة (bāzūka)

→ Chinese: 巴祖卡 (bāzǔkǎ)

→ French: bazooka

→ Dutch: bazooka

→ Finnish: bazooka

→ German: Bazooka

→ Indonesian: bazoka

→ Japanese: バズーカ (bazūka)

→ Korean: 바주카 (bajuka)

→ Macedonian: базука (bazuka)

→ Maranao: basoka

→ Polish: bazooka

→ Portuguese: bazuca

→ Romanian: bazooka

→ Spanish: bazuca

→ Swedish: bazooka

Bazooka (disambiguation)
Bob Burns (humorist)
European debt crisis

From an extension of the word bazoo (“mouth, boastful talk”), which ultimately probably stems from Dutch bazuin (“trumpet”). In the finance sense first used by policymakers during the European debt crisis (2010).

(weaponry) A shoulder-held rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon, developed by America during World War II and so-called from its resemblance to the bazooka musical instrument.


bazooka

bazooka (nominative singular)
bazooki (nominative plural)
bazooki (genitive singular)
bazook (genitive plural)
bazooce (dative singular)
bazookom (dative plural)
bazookę (accusative singular)
bazooki (accusative plural)
bazooką (instrumental singular)
bazookami (instrumental plural)
bazooce (locative singular)
bazookach (locative plural)
bazooko (singular vocative)
bazooki (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English bazooka.

ubor

(weaponry) bazooka (shoulder-held rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon)


bazooka

bazooka (indefinite nominative singular)
bazookas (genitive indefinite singular)
bazookan (definite nominative singular)
bazookans (definite genitive singular)
bazookor (indefinite nominative plural)
bazookors (genitive indefinite plural)
bazookorna (definite nominative plural)
bazookornas (definite genitive plural)


cupola

Borrowed from Italian cupola, from Latin cūpula (“little tub”); from Latin cūpa, cuppa (“cup”); named for its resemblance to a cup turned over.

(military, railroad) A small turret, usually on a hatch of an armoured fighting vehicle.


welter-weight

Originally “heavyweight horseman” (1832), from welter (“heavyweight horseman”) + weight. Boxing sense 1896.

compound

(boxing) between lightweight and middleweight


welter-weight

welter-weights (plural)
welterweight (alternative)

(boxing) a boxer weighing more than a lightweight boxer and less than a middleweight boxer; someone boxing in the welterweight class


franc-tireur

fr-noun

franc-tireur m (plural francs-tireurs, feminine franche-tireuse or franc-tireuse)

francs-tireurs (plural)
franche-tireuse (feminine)
franc-tireuse (feminine)

Italian: franco tiratore

Spanish: francotirador

Catalan: franctirador

(military) a sniper, an irregular, an impromptu guerrilla


uke

From Japanese 受け (uke), the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 受(う)ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

ja-ryk

(judo, martial arts) The training partner against whom tori performs a move.


missing in action

/ˈmɪsɪŋ ɪn ˈækʃən/

Missing in action are those who have been dropped from the muster-roll as missing in action, and have subsequently joined again. [...] If the missing in action, or desertion, and the return to the company, both occur in the quarter, it is not necessary to note them; in other words, it is not necessary that the soldiers should be dropped and taken up again on the same return.

1864, August V[alentine] Kautz, “Return of Men Joined”, in The Company Clerk: […], Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, paragraph 135, page 77:

Private Louis R. Ziegra of this place [Deep River, Connecticut], formerly a bookkeeper at the Pratt-Reid Player Action Co., who is announced in dispatches from the War Department as missing in action is a German prisoner of war.

1918 July 20, “In the Hands of the Huns”, in John C[hristian] Freund, editor, The Music Trades, volume LVI, number 3, New York, N.Y.: The Music Trades Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25, columns 1–2:

One and one-tenth percent of the academy graduates have been lost or missing in action, prisoners of war or physically disabled as a result of the war. [...] An additional 150 Cadet-Midshipmen, before graduation, lost their lives or are missing in action.

1946 January, “Merchant Marine Cadet Corps Record is Finest”, in Pat Martin et al., editors, The Log, volume 41, number 1, San Francisco, Calif.: Miller Freeman Publishers, →OCLC, page 49:

My husband, Colonel Bobby Vinson, U.S. Air Force, has been missing in action since April 24, 1968. Well over half of the men currently listed by the Departments of State and Defense have been missing or imprisoned for longer than that. Some men have spent twice that long in prison cells in the north, jungles in the south, and pits in Laos. Many more have spent at least that time in the limbo we have termed "missing in action."

1971 March 23, Joan Vinson (witness), “Statement of Joan Vinson, National Coordinator, National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia”, in American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1971: Hearings before the Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-second Congress, First Session: […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 28:

Before examining the French experience, it would seem useful to consider some of the major differences and similarities between the French war and the American war in Vietnam. The areas of combat and the type of warfare, the composition of the armed forces, the bargaining power of the adversaries and their dissimilar set of values, were all factors that affected, in one way or another, the numbers of killed in action, missing in action, prisoners of war, died in captivity, and bodies recovered.

1976 April 7, Anita Lauve (witness), “Statement of Ms. Anita Lauve”, in Americans Missing in Southeast Asia: Hearings before the House Select Committee on Missing Persons in Southeast Asia, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session: Part 4: […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 2:

Our Nation will not forget these heroes, and we will not stop searching for our service members who are missing in action. [...] I call upon the people of the United States to join me in saluting all American POWs and those missing in action who valiantly served our great country.

2004 September 14, George W[alker] Bush, “Proclamation 7815 of September 14, 2004: National POW/MIA Recognition Day, 2004”, in Code of Federal Regulations: [Title] 3: 2004 Compilation and Parts 100–102: […] The President … A Special Edition of the Federal Register, Washington, D.C.: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration; U.S. Government Printing Office, published 1 January 2005, →OCLC, page 83:

On 27 April 1981, Private Kevin Joyce (20) was on guard duty at a UN observation post in south Lebanon when he was kidnapped. He was never seen again and is now officially regarded by the Defence Forces as: ‘Missing in Action, Presumed Dead.’

2010, Ralph Riegel, John O’Mahony, chapter 12, in Missing in Action: The 50 Year Search for Ireland’s Missing Soldier, Cork, Munster: Mercier Press, →ISBN, page 203:

(chiefly military) The designation for a member of an organization (usually military) with whom contact is lost and whose whereabouts are not known, but whose death is not confirmed.

فُقِدَ فِي الْمَعْرَكَة

designation for a member of an organization with whom contact is lost but whose death is not confirmed


killed in action

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There were only some four hundred United States marines who in the heroic and historic defense of Wake Island inflicted such great losses on the enemy. Some of those men were killed in action; and others are now prisoners of war.

1942 January 6, Franklin Roosevelt, 1942 President's Annual Message to Congress:

(chiefly military) The designation for a member of an organization (primarily military) who has died while on duty.


brigadier general

en-noun

brigadier general (plural brigadier generals)

brigadier generals (plural)
Brig. Gen. (alternative)

(military) A military officer who commands a brigade.

(military) A military rank between colonel and the second lowest general rank or major general, having an O7 NATO rank scale equivalency


поручик

ru-noun+

пору́чик • (porúčik) m anim (genitive пору́чика, nominative plural пору́чики, genitive plural пору́чиков)

пору́чик (canonical)
porúčik (romanization)
пору́чика (genitive)
пору́чики (nominative plural)
пору́чиков (genitive plural)
пору́чик (nominative singular)
пору́чики (nominative plural)
пору́чика (genitive singular)
пору́чиков (genitive plural)
пору́чику (dative singular)
пору́чикам (dative plural)
пору́чика (accusative singular)
пору́чиков (accusative plural)
пору́чиком (instrumental singular)
пору́чиками (instrumental plural)
пору́чике (prepositional singular)
пору́чиках (plural prepositional)

→ Armenian: պորուչիկ (poručʻik)

Ru-поручик.ogg

Borrowed from Polish porucznik, from Old Czech poručník.

(historical, military) lieutenant, first lieutenant


pannier

From Middle English panere, panȝere, panyere, from Old French panier, paniere, from Latin pānārium (“a bread basket”), from pānis (“bread”). Doublet of panary.

(historical, military) A piece of basketwork for protecting archers, or, filled with gravel or sand, for forming and protecting embankments, etc.


ogive

From late Middle English ogif, egeve, egeove, from Old French ogive, œgive, augive. Doublet of ogee.

However, Ordnance tests revealed that the existing metal ogive (nose cone) tended to telescope on impact, cushioning the impact shock, and resulting in the failure of the impact fuze. In addition, the ogive tended to shear off from the rest of the body at impact angles of 20 degrees or more, […]

2016, Steven J. Zaloga, Bazooka vs Panzer: Battle of the Bulge 1944, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 32:

Nose: The forward end of a warhead. May have a fuze-well, be solid, or be defined by the shape of the ogive.
Ogive: Is aft of the nose, and forward of the bourrelet. May house a fuze adapter with a shape consistent with the contour of the ogive.

2019, Thomas Gersbeck, Practical Military Ordnance Identification, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 111:

(weaponry, ballistics) The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket.


ogive

ogives (plural)
augive (alternative obsolete)

→ Spanish: ojiva

From Vulgar Latin augīvus, from Latin augēre, as the ogive goes on increasing, and the arch it forms increases the strength of the vault. In Old French we find the phrase arc ogif, itself from Latin arcus augivus. The word was also written as augive in the 17th century.

ogives nucléaires

Dans la journée, l’armée russe a procédé à un exercice annuel de dissuasion nucléaire avec des tests de missiles capables de transporter des ogives nucléaires.

2022 October 27, Thomas d’Istria, “Oleksii Reznikov, le ministre de la défense ukrainien, ne croit pas que Poutine utilisera l’arme nucléaire”, in Le Monde.fr:

During the day, the Russian army carried out an annual nuclear deterrence exercise with tests of missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

(military) nose cone, warhead (of missile)


pick up

en-verb

pick up (third-person singular simple present picks up, present participle picking up, simple past and past participle picked up)

picks up (present singular third-person)
picking up (participle present)
picked up (participle past)
picked up (past)

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[…] there are now 98 officers of that rank who have been passed over one or more times, most of whom have little prospect of being picked up by future selection boards but will await only the completion of 21 years' service before going on the retired list.

1937, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings, volume 2, page 141:

The list is about the same as when each class was commissioned, except for a small percentage who were passed over once or twice and then picked up.

1938, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs, Hearings on H.R. 9997 to Regulate the Distribution, Promotion, and Retirement of Officers of the Line of the Navy and for Other Purposes, page 3239:

(US, military, transitive) To promote somebody who was previously passed over.


simulant

simulant (indefinite nominative singular)
simulants (genitive indefinite singular)
simulanten (definite nominative singular)
simulantens (definite genitive singular)
simulanter (indefinite nominative plural)
simulanters (genitive indefinite plural)
simulanterna (definite nominative plural)
simulanternas (definite genitive plural)


antisubmarine

A depth charge is an antisubmarine weapon.

NATO held extensive wargames to practice antisubmarine warfare.

(military) Intended for use against submarines.


antitank

A TOW missile is an antitank weapon capable of killing everyone in a tank from great distance.

armored fighting vehicle
armored fighting vehicle

(military) Of weapons or tactics, designed for thwarting or (especially) attacking tanks or other armored fighting vehicles.

مضاد للدبابات

designed for attacking tanks or other armored vehicles


antiship

A single EXOCET antiship missile can sink a destroyer. Try not to get hit.

(military) Designed to attack a naval ship.


crochet

→ English: crochet

desc

→ Portuguese: colchete (“hook, bracket”)

→ Portuguese: crochê (“crochet”), croché, crochet (unadapted form)

→ Spanish: corchete

→ Turkish: kroşe


leva

(military) call-up, conscription, draft, national service

(military, called up soldiers) those called-up, conscripts


flagship

After Russia’s flagship in the Black Sea, the Moskva, sank last week, the authorities said that the entire crew of more than 500 had been rescued.

2022 April 21, Neil MacFarquhar, Alina Lobzina, “With sunken warship, Russian disinformation faces a test.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(nautical, military) The ship occupied by the fleet's commander (usually an admiral); it denotes this by flying his flag.


mantlet

mantlets (plural)
mantelet (alternative)

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From Middle English mauntelet, from Old French mantelet, diminutive of mantel (“mantle”). Doublet of mantelletta.

Already their archers were stealing forward, pushing their rolling mantlets.

2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam, published 2011, page 947:

(military, now historical) A portable screen or other covering, especially as used to protect the approach of soldiers engaged in a siege.


AFP

Armed Forces of the Philippines
w:Armed Forces of the Philippines

(Philippines, military) Initialism of Armed Forces of the Philippines.


aspirant

fr-noun

aspirant m (plural aspirants, feminine aspirante)

→ German: Aspirant

(military) officer candidate, officer designate, midshipman


BB

en-noun

BB (countable and uncountable, plural BBs)

BBs (plural)
B.B. (alternative)
B. B. (alternative)
bb (alternative)


PSB

PSB (countable and uncountable, plural PSBs)

Presidential Service Badge
w:Presidential Service Badge

(military, US) Initialism of Presidential Service Badge.


LWT

(military, nautical) Abbreviation of lightweight torpedo.


SFC

SFC (countable and uncountable, plural SFCs)

Sergeant First Class
w:Sergeant First Class

(military, US) Initialism of Sergeant First Class.


plonk

A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

From WWI military slang, derived by alteration of French vin blanc (“white wine”) by the law of Hobson-Jobson. Recorded earliest in the playful rhyming slang form plinketty-plonk. Possibly influenced by the sound of wine being poured into a glass.


chickenshit

chickenshit (countable and uncountable, plural chickenshits)

chickenshits (plural)
chicken-shit (alternative)
chicken shit (alternative)

That chickenshit drove his men nearly to mutiny.

(vulgar, military, slang) A low-ranking officer who lords over and needlessly makes life miserable for his underlings; a petty, abusive martinet.


boks

boks (nominative singular)
boksu (genitive singular)
boksowi (dative singular)
boks (accusative singular)
boksem (instrumental singular)
boksie (locative singular)
boksie (singular vocative)


LCS

LCS (countable and uncountable, plural LCSs)

The “rotational deployment” of the vessels, called littoral combat ships (LCS), comes as China continues to flex its muscles in the South China Sea and tensions remain on the Korean Peninsula. / “We will soon see up to four LCS here in Singapore as we rotationally deploy Seventh Fleet ships,” said Rear Admiral Charles Williams.

2015 February 18, “US to base four warships in Singapore as China flexes military muscles”, in The Guardian:

littoral combat ship
littoral combat ship#English

(US, military, nautical, countable) Initialism of littoral combat ship: a specialized type of frigate for green water and coastal combat and transoceanic capability designated by the US Navy.


Winchester

French: Bicêtre

Hungarian: vincseszter

Russian: винчестер (vinčester)

From Middle English Wynchester, Winchestre, from Old English Wintanċeaster, from Latin Venta Belgārum (literally “Venta of the Belgae”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Celtic *wentā (“town, place”), Proto-Indo-European *h₁wen- (“place (?)”) + Old English ċeaster, from Latin castra (“camp”).
The bottle is named for the former customary units of the English city. The rifle is named named after American businessman Oliver Winchester (1810–1880). The computer disk is named for the rifle.


trigger

Originally tricker, from Dutch trekker (“pull”, noun, as in drawer-pull, bell-pull), from Dutch trekken (“to drag, draw, pull”).

bor

Just pull the trigger.

[W]e pull'd aſide the Tricker, and obſerv'd, that according to our expectation the force of the Spring of the Lock vvas not ſenſibly abated by the abſence of the Air.

1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, “[Experiment 14]”, in New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC, page 89:

(firearms) A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.


hootchie

(military slang) Alternative form of hutchie (“type of shelter”).


overkill

/ˈəʊ.vəˌkɪl/

[The] increase in nuclear missiles available to the West was operationally unnecessary and would only add to the existing nuclear overkill; mixed manning was a formula for military disaster; […]

1990, Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson, Britain's Defence Dilemma: An Inside View : Rethinking British Defence Policy in the Post-imperial Era, B. T. Batsford Limited:

(literally, military) A destructive capacity that exceeds that needed to destroy an enemy; especially with nuclear weapons.


bombe

head

bombe c (singular definite bomben, plural indefinite bomber)

bomben (definite singular)
bomber (indefinite plural)
bombe (indefinite nominative singular)
bomben (definite nominative singular)
bomber (indefinite nominative plural)
bomberne (definite nominative plural)
bombes (genitive indefinite singular)
bombens (definite genitive singular)
bombers (genitive indefinite plural)
bombernes (definite genitive plural)


dugout

The key unit of life here is the dugout – what the soldiers call a ‘blindage’ – an underground burrow where half a dozen men share the narrow space between the bunks with weapons, ammunition, biscuits, tea bags, and a jumble of other essentials (there is also usually a cat, not to mention the mice).

2017 January 14, Roland Oliphant, “Special report: Loose cannons at the frontline of Ukraine's forgotten war”, in The Telegraph:

(military) A pit dug into the ground as a shelter, especially from enemy fire.


rookery

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(military, slang, obsolete) That part of the barracks occupied by subalterns.


lat

lats (plural)
lât (alternative)
lāt (alternative)
lath (alternative)

Borrowed from Hindi लाट (lāṭ, “pillar; minaret; staff, club”), लाठ (lāṭh, “long staff; cudgel”), etc.

bor+

(weaponry, rare) A staff, particularly one of an Indian kind.


cook-off

en-noun

cook-off (countable and uncountable, plural cook-offs)

(chemistry, military) The accidental detonation of explosives as the result of excessive heat.


fire at will

All cruisers, fire at will! Burn their mongrel hides!

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Rtas 'Vadum (Robert Davi), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:

(military) Fire when ready. A command that allows troops to use weapons at their discretion and choose their own targets, allowing the individual soldier a greater freedom of timing the shot with target movement and similar.


CATO

(Canada, military) Acronym of Cadet Administrative and Training Order.


fuze

Variant spelling of fuse used to differentiate senses, see Usage note there.

(military, professional usage) An auxiliary device with explosive components, used to detonate a munition.


fuze

en-verb

fuze (third-person singular simple present fuzes, present participle fuzing, simple past and past participle fuzed)

fuzes (present singular third-person)
fuzing (participle present)
fuzed (participle past)
fuzed (past)

(transitive, military, professional usage) To equip with a fuze.


MOS

"I was a marine. My MOS was 0311," he said.

(military) Initialism of military occupational specialty.


BFH

(military slang) Initialism of big fucking hammer.


PVT

en-noun

PVT (countable and uncountable, plural PVTs)

PVTs (plural)
Pte (alternative)
Pte. (alternative)
Pvt (alternative)
Pvt. (alternative)

(US, military) Abbreviation of private (“soldier”).


encampment

encampment (countable and uncountable, plural encampments)

PIE word
 *h₁én
From encamp (“to establish a camp or temporary shelter”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns denoting actions or their results).

affix

As ſoon as he came to the top of thoſe Hills he plainly diſcovered the Creek or Harbour vvhere the Pyrate Ships lay, and vvhere they had form'd their Encampment on the Shore.

1725, [Daniel Defoe], “Part I”, in A New Voyage Round the World, by a Course Never Sailed before. […], London: […] A[rthur] Bettesworth, […]; and W. Mears, […], →OCLC, page 69:

One of the greatest dangers that beset the travellers in this part of their expedition, was the vast number of rattlesnakes which infested the rocks about the rapids and portages, and on which the men were in danger of treading. They were often found, too, in quantities about the encampments.

1836 October, Washington Irving, chapter XIII, in Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. […], volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, page 116:

[P]erhaps, had the Moors passed these gates, and reached the Christian encampment, lulled, as it was, in security and sleep, that wild army of twenty thousand desperate men might have saved Granada; and Spain might, at this day, possess the only civilised empire which the faith of Mahomet ever founded.

1838, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “The Return—the Riot—the Treachery—and the Death”, in “Leila; or, The Siege of Granada”, in Leila; or, The Siege of Granada: And Calderon, the Courtier. […], London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans; Paris: Delloy and Co., →OCLC, book V, page 286:

Shortly after leaving the station, the train passes the site of a small halt, built in August, 1889, to serve a large army encampment situated nearby.

1946 July–August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 243:

In Mississippi, Tom turned an encampment of do-gooder burners into an organization he dubbed Burners Without Borders.

2011, Steven T. Jones, The Tribes of Burning Man: How an Experimental City in the Desert is Shaping the New American Counterculture, San Francisco, Calif.: Consortium of Collective Consciousness, →ISBN:

(often military) A place where people (such as displaced people, soldiers, or travellers) encamp, that is, stay in tents or other temporary structures; a camp or campsite.

lag

place where people encamp — see also camp, campsite


aki

(military) syllabic abbreviation of ayun kiri (“left swing”)


Zouave

From French, from Arabic زَوَاوِيّ (zawāwiyy), used to refer to a Kabyle soldier, especially of the Igawawen people.

(military, historical) One of a body of soldiers in the French service, originally Kabyle, but now composed of Frenchmen who wear the Kabyle dress.

الزواف

a Kabyle or French soldier in Kabyle dress

(military, historical, by extension) One of a body of soldiers who adopt the dress and drill of the Zouaves in French service, as was done by a number of volunteer regiments in the army of the United States in the Civil War (1861–65).


bombero

ᜊᜓᜋ᜔ᜊᜒᜇᜓ (Baybayin)
bumbero (alternative)

Borrowed from Spanish bombero. The sense “bomber” is a semantic loan from English bomber. By surface analysis, bomba (“pump; bomb; nude scene”) + -ero.


encuentro

Deverbal from encontrar. From Old Spanish encuentro


lanyard

lanyards (plural)
laniard (alternative)
laniard (alternative)

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Auckland War Memorial Museum
Imperial War Museum
M777 howitzer
New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Royal Artillery
United States Army

From late Middle English lainer, lainere, lanyer (“strap or thong used to fasten armour”) (with the ending modified in the 17th century under the influence of yard), from Old French laniere, lasniere (“thong, lash”) (see modern French lanière (“lanyard, strap”)).
The French word is ultimately from Germanic, cognate with Old High German nestila (“band, headband; strap”) (modern German Nestel (“lace; strap; string”)), Old Norse nesta (“brace; fastener, strap”).

ref

From the collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum in Auckland, New Zealand.

From the collection of the Imperial War Museum, UK.

cog

(by extension, military) A cord with a hook which is secured to an artillery piece, and pulled to fire the weapon.

Abzugsleine

cord with a hook secured to an artillery piece, and pulled to fire the weapon


isu

(sumo) An individual seat in the loft-like balcony of a sumo arena.


parada

(fencing) action of stopping a blow with the sword

(military) formation of the troops to be reviewed


parada

parada (nominative singular)
parady (nominative plural)
parady (genitive singular)
parad (genitive plural)
paradzie (dative singular)
paradom (dative plural)
paradę (accusative singular)
parady (accusative plural)
paradą (instrumental singular)
paradami (instrumental plural)
paradzie (locative singular)
paradach (locative plural)
parado (singular vocative)
parady (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French parade, from Spanish parada, from parar (“to halt, stop, get ready, prepare”), from Latin parare.

(military) parade (assembling of troops for inspection or to receive orders)


etapa

etapa (nominative singular)
etapy (nominative plural)
etapy (genitive singular)
etap (genitive plural)
etapě (dative singular)
etapám (dative plural)
etapu (accusative singular)
etapy (accusative plural)
etapo (singular vocative)
etapy (plural vocative)
etapě (locative singular)
etapách (locative plural)
etapou (instrumental singular)
etapami (instrumental plural)

(military, dated) zone behind a front, Communications Zone


etapa

(military) étape (place where troops on a march halt overnight for rest and resupply)


tiro

la-noun

tīrō m (genitive tīrōnis); third declension

tīrō (canonical masculine)
tīrōnis (genitive)
tīrō (nominative singular)
tīrōnēs (nominative plural)
tīrōnis (genitive singular)
tīrōnum (genitive plural)
tīrōnī (dative singular)
tīrōnibus (dative plural)
tīrōnem (accusative singular)
tīrōnēs (accusative plural)
tīrōne (ablative singular)
tīrōnibus (ablative plural)
tīrō (singular vocative)
tīrōnēs (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: tiró (learned)

→ English: tyro (learned)

→ Italian: tirone (learned)


soldado

pt-noun

soldado m or f by sense or (see usage notes) m (plural soldados, feminine soldada, feminine plural soldadas)

soldado m or f by sense or (canonical masculine)
soldados (plural)
soldada (feminine)
soldadas (feminine plural)

→ Guajajára: zurar

→ Konkani: सोल्दाद (soldād)

→ Makhuwa: surutato

desctree

→ Malay: serdadu
> Indonesian: serdadu (inherited)
→ Javanese: ꦱꦫꦝꦝꦸ (saradhadhu)
→ Petjo: serdadoe, soldadoe

→ Marathi: सोल्दाद (soldād)

→ Old Tupi: surara
Nheengatu: surara

→ Sinhalese: සොල්දාදුවා (soldāduwā)

→ Tetum: soldadu

From Old Galician-Portuguese soldado, corresponding to soldo (“military salary”) + -ado. A calque or imitation of Italian soldato, from the past participle of soldare, from soldo (“money, military pay”).
Compare Spanish soldado, Italian soldato, French soldat.


frente

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Borrowed from Spanish frente f, from Old Spanish fruente f, from Latin frontem m. Doublet of fronte and front.

candeia que vai à frente alumia duas vezes

(military) front (area or line of conflict)


frente

→ Portuguese: frente

Inherited from Old Spanish fruente, from Latin frontem, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰron-t-, from *bʰren- (“project”).


entrega

ᜁᜈ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜄ (Baybayin)
intriga (alternative)

[ʔɛn̪ˈt̪ɾɛː.ɣɐ]


ISF

Israeli security forces
w:Israeli security forces

(military, Israel) Initialism of Israeli security forces.


katyusha

katyushas (plural)
Katyusha (alternative)

(military) Katyusha (Soviet rocket launcher)


gancho

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).


gancho

→ Catalan: ganxo

→ Italian: gancio

[ˈɡãnʲ.t͡ʃo]


invasive

en-adj

invasive (comparative more invasive, superlative most invasive)

more invasive (comparative)
most invasive (superlative)

PIE word
 *h₁én
The adjective is derived from Middle English invasif (“of a weapon: offensive”), from Middle French invasif, Old French invasif (“invasive”) (modern French invasif), from Medieval Latin invāsīvus, from Latin invāsus (“entered; invaded”) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives). Invāsus is the perfect passive participle of invādō (“to enter; to invade”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside’) + vādō (“to go; to rush; to walk”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂dʰ- (“to go, proceed; to pass, traverse”)).
The noun is derived from the adjective.

der

He managed to get back Lorraine; made truce with the Hungarians, who were excessively invasive at that time. Truce with the Hungarians; and then, having gathered strength, made dreadful beating of them; two beatings,—one to each half, for the invasive Savagery had split itself, for better chance of plunder; […]

1858, Thomas Carlyle, “Brannibor: Henry the Fowler”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book II, page 70:

(military, also figuratively) That invades a foreign country using military force; also, militarily aggressive.

агресивен

that invades a foreign country using military force; militarily aggressive


kulspruta

kulspruta (indefinite nominative singular)
kulsprutas (genitive indefinite singular)
kulsprutan (definite nominative singular)
kulsprutans (definite genitive singular)
kulsprutor (indefinite nominative plural)
kulsprutors (genitive indefinite plural)
kulsprutorna (definite nominative plural)
kulsprutornas (definite genitive plural)
ksp (alternative abbreviation)

→ Finnish: kuularuisku (calque)

kula (“bullet”) + spruta (“sprayer”). Compare German Kugelspritze. First used to describe mitrailleuse.


cervus

la-noun

cervus m (genitive cervī); second declension

cervī (genitive)
cervus (nominative singular)
cervī (nominative plural)
cervī (genitive singular)
cervōrum (genitive plural)
cervō (dative singular)
cervīs (dative plural)
cervum (accusative singular)
cervōs (accusative plural)
cervō (ablative singular)
cervīs (ablative plural)
cerve (singular vocative)
cervī (plural vocative)
cervos (alternative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: tserbu

Megleno-Romanian: țerb

Romanian: cerb

Gallo-Italic:

Ligurian: çervo

Lombard: cèrf

Venetan: cervo

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: cèrf

Old French: cerf

French: cerf

Picard: cherfe

Occitano-Romance:

Old Catalan: cervo

Catalan: cervo

Old Occitan:

Occitan: cèrvi

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: cierf

Ladin: cerf

Romansch: tschierv

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: ciervu

Old Galician-Portuguese: cervo

Galician: cervo

Portuguese: cervo

Old Spanish:

Spanish: ciervo

Italo-Dalmatian:

Corsican: cervu

Gallurese: celvu

Italian: cervo
→ Maltese: ċerv

Sassarese: zèivu

Sicilian: cervu

Sardinian:

Campidanese: cerbu

Logudorese: chervu

Nuorese: chervu

Borrowings:

→ Dutch: cerviduct

→ Esperanto: cervo

Inherited from Proto-Italic *kerwos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂wós, from *ḱerh₂- (“horn”) (whence English horn, hirn, Latin cornū (“horn”)) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus).
Cognate with Welsh carw (“deer”), and Ancient Greek κεραός (keraós, “horned”). The first-syllable -e- was likely taken from the PIE root noun *ḱerh₂s (“horn”) (itself eventually lost in Latin), while the shift in meaning from “horned” to “deer” may be common Italo-Celtic.


RTFA

Derived from the initialism RTFM, which was originally used in the context of Usenet.

(military) Initialism of ready team fire assist.


comando

comandos (plural)
commando (alternative obsolete)

→ Afrikaans: kommando

→ English: commando

From comandar (“to command; to order”), from com- + mandāre (“to deliver; to order”).

(military) commando (small fighting force trained for quick raids)

(military) area under the jurisdiction of a commander


misión

Borrowed from Latin missiōnem. Cognate with English mission.


subbe

(military slang) subaltern, officer having a rank below captain, i.e. fänrik (second lieutenant) or löjtnant (lieutenant)


tumba

Borrowed from Spanish tumbar. Compare Cebuano tumba.


destacar

es-verb

destacar (first-person singular present destaco, first-person singular preterite destaqué, past participle destacado)

destaco (first-person present singular)
destaqué (first-person preterite singular)
destacado (participle past)
destacar (infinitive)
destacando (gerund)
destacado (masculine participle past singular)
destacada (feminine participle past singular)
destacados (masculine participle past plural)
destacadas (feminine participle past plural)
destaco (first-person indicative present singular)
destacas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
destacás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
destaca (indicative present singular third-person)
destacamos (first-person indicative plural present)
destacáis (indicative plural present second-person)
destacan (indicative plural present third-person)
destacaba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
destacabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
destacaba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
destacábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
destacabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
destacaban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
destaqué (first-person indicative preterite singular)
destacaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
destacó (indicative preterite singular third-person)
destacamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
destacasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
destacaron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
destacaré (first-person future indicative singular)
destacarás (future indicative second-person singular)
destacará (future indicative singular third-person)
destacaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
destacaréis (future indicative plural second-person)
destacarán (future indicative plural third-person)
destacaría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
destacarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
destacaría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
destacaríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
destacaríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
destacarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
destaque (first-person present singular subjunctive)
destaques (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
destaqués (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
destaque (present singular subjunctive third-person)
destaquemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
destaquéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
destaquen (plural present subjunctive third-person)
destacara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
destacaras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
destacara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
destacáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
destacarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
destacaran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
destacase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
destacases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
destacase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
destacásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
destacaseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
destacasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
destacare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
destacares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
destacare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
destacáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
destacareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
destacaren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
destaca (imperative informal second-person singular)
destacá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
destaque (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
destaque (imperative singular third-person)
destaquemos (first-person imperative plural)
destacad (imperative plural second-person)
destaquen (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
destaquen (imperative plural third-person)
destaques (imperative negative second-person singular)
destaque (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
destaque (imperative negative singular third-person)
destaquemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
destaquéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
destaquen (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
destaquen (imperative negative plural third-person)
destacarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
destacarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
destacarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
destacarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
destacarnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
destacaros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
destacarles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
destacarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
destacarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
destacarte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
destacarlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
destacarla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
destacarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
destacarnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
destacaros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
destacarlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
destacarlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
destacarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
destacándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
destacándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
destacándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
destacándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
destacándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
destacándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
destacándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
destacándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
destacándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
destacándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
destacándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
destacándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
destacándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
destacándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
destacándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
destacándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
destacándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
destacándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
destácame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
destácate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
destácale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
destácanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
destácales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
destácame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
destácate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
destácalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
destácala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
destácanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
destácalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
destácalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
destacame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
destacate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
destacale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
destacanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
destacales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
destacame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
destacate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
destacalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
destacala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
destacanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
destacalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
destacalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
destáqueme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
destáquele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
destáquese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
destáquenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
destáqueles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
destáqueme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
destáquelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
destáquela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
destáquese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
destáquenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
destáquelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
destáquelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
destaquémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
destaquémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
destaquémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
destaquémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
destaquémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
destaquémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
destaquémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
destaquémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
destaquémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
destaquémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
destaquémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
destaquémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
destacadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
destacadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
destacadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
destacaos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
destacadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
destacadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
destacadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
destacadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
destacadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
destacaos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
destacadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
destacadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
destáquenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
destáquenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
destáquennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
destáquenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
destáquense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
destáquenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
destáquenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
destáquenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
destáquennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
destáquenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
destáquenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
destáquense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)

→ Portuguese: destacar

Borrowed from French détacher. Compare English detach.


inlet

en-verb

inlet (third-person singular simple present inlets, present participle inletting, simple past and past participle inlet)

inlets (present singular third-person)
inletting (participle present)
inlet (participle past)
inlet (past)

From Middle English inleten, equivalent to in- + let. Cognate with Dutch inlaten (“to let in, admit”), Low German inlaten (“to let in”), German einlassen (“to admit, let in”), Swedish inlåta (“to enter, engage”).

(firearms) To carve the wooden stock of a firearm so as to position the metal components in it.


дух

ru-noun+

дух • (dux) m anim or m inan (genitive ду́ха, nominative plural ду́хи, genitive plural ду́хов, relational adjective духово́й)

dux (romanization)
ду́ха (genitive)
ду́хи (nominative plural)
ду́хов (genitive plural)
духово́й (adjective relational)
ду́х (nominative singular)
ду́хи (nominative plural)
ду́ха (genitive singular)
ду́хов (genitive plural)
ду́ху (dative singular)
ду́хам (dative plural)
ду́ха (accusative animate singular)
ду́хов (accusative animate plural)
ду́х (accusative inanimate singular)
ду́хи (accusative inanimate plural)
ду́хом (instrumental singular)
ду́хами (instrumental plural)
ду́хе (prepositional singular)
ду́хах (plural prepositional)
ду́ху (partitive singular)
духу́ (locative singular)
ду́ше (singular vocative)
духъ (alternative)

→ Armenian: դուխ (dux)

→ Azerbaijani: dux

→ Gagauz: duh

(military, slang) new recruit, rookie who is sometimes abused by the longer serving soldiers


DIA

Defense Intelligence Agency
w:Defense Intelligence Agency

(US, military) Initialism of Defense Intelligence Agency.


noce

it-noun

noce f (plural noci, diminutive nocìna, augmentative nocióna)

noci (plural)
nocìna (diminutive)
nocióna (augmentative)

Inherited from Latin nucem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *knew-.


trono

Attested since 1370 (trõo). From Old Galician-Portuguese (compare Portuguese trom), from Latin tonus (“thunderclap; sound, tone”) (probably through a Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *tronus, with influence from tonitrus).

inh

Hũu trono cõ seu serujdor e hũu fole de póluora

1457, Fernando Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos, Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega, page 171:

A bombard with its server and a bag of powder


tropa

Attested since 1603. Ultimately from French troupe.

a meu yrmaõ Jeronimo frde de ponteuedra, vn alcalde que foy da bila mesma, passando as tropas dos soldados, lle a feyto vma senjustiça tocandolle na onrra, que he coussa para a cassa de meu pay de moita estima

1603, Rosario Álvarez, edited by Ernesto González, Cartas a Conde de Gondomar:

to my brother Xerónimo Fernández de Pontevedra, a later alderman of this same town while reviewing the soldiers' troops made him an injustice, touching him in his honor, which is a thing of great value for my father's house


brigada

(military) brigade (military unit composed of several regiments)


brigada

desctree

→ Javanese: ꦧꦽꦒꦢ (bregada)
→ Indonesian: bregada


brigada

(military) brigade, a large military unit, smaller than a division, consisting of several regiments or battalions


palanca

Borrowed from Spanish palanca, from Latin phalanga (“roller; pole”), from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (phálanx, “log; phalanx”).

der

(military architecture, historical) a rampart with palisades or stakes


Ali Baba

From Persian علی بابا. The use of Ali Baba to designate a type of container originates from the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (see the use as proper noun below), suggesting the appearance of the oil jars in which the thieves hide in the story.

bor

Persian علی بابا

(slang, ethnic slur, US, military) An Iraqi.


antimissile

antimissile defense

antimissile missile

(military) Designed to intercept and destroy another missile in flight.

проціраке́тны

designed to destroy another missile in flight


riser

From Middle English ryser, risere, equivalent to rise + -er.


asalto

(boxing) round (one of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a match)


ofensiva

Os cavaleiros lançaram uma última ofensiva.

(military) offensive (a large-scale attack)

É melhor partirmos para a ofensiva.

We are better off going on the offensive.

(uncountable, military, sports, debating) offensive (the posture of attacking)


tasa

tasa (nominative singular)
tasat (nominative plural)
tasa (accusative nominative singular)
tasat (accusative nominative plural)
tasan (accusative genitive singular)
tasat (accusative genitive plural)
tasan (genitive singular)
tasojen (genitive plural)
tasain (genitive plural rare)
tasaa (partitive singular)
tasoja (partitive plural)
tasassa (inessive singular)
tasoissa (inessive plural)
tasasta (elative singular)
tasoista (elative plural)
tasaan (illative singular)
tasoihin (illative plural)
tasalla (adessive singular)
tasoilla (adessive plural)
tasalta (ablative singular)
tasoilta (ablative plural)
tasalle (allative singular)
tasoille (allative plural)
tasana (essive singular)
tasoina (essive plural)
tasaksi (singular translative)
tasoiksi (plural translative)
tasatta (abessive singular)
tasoitta (abessive plural)
tasoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
tasani (nominative singular)
tasani (nominative plural)
tasani (accusative nominative singular)
tasani (accusative nominative plural)
tasani (accusative genitive singular)
tasani (accusative genitive plural)
tasani (genitive singular)
tasojeni (genitive plural)
tasaini (genitive plural rare)
tasaani (partitive singular)
tasojani (partitive plural)
tasassani (inessive singular)
tasoissani (inessive plural)
tasastani (elative singular)
tasoistani (elative plural)
tasaani (illative singular)
tasoihini (illative plural)
tasallani (adessive singular)
tasoillani (adessive plural)
tasaltani (ablative singular)
tasoiltani (ablative plural)
tasalleni (allative singular)
tasoilleni (allative plural)
tasanani (essive singular)
tasoinani (essive plural)
tasakseni (singular translative)
tasoikseni (plural translative)
tasattani (abessive singular)
tasoittani (abessive plural)
tasoineni (comitative plural)
tasasi (nominative singular)
tasasi (nominative plural)
tasasi (accusative nominative singular)
tasasi (accusative nominative plural)
tasasi (accusative genitive singular)
tasasi (accusative genitive plural)
tasasi (genitive singular)
tasojesi (genitive plural)
tasaisi (genitive plural rare)
tasaasi (partitive singular)
tasojasi (partitive plural)
tasassasi (inessive singular)
tasoissasi (inessive plural)
tasastasi (elative singular)
tasoistasi (elative plural)
tasaasi (illative singular)
tasoihisi (illative plural)
tasallasi (adessive singular)
tasoillasi (adessive plural)
tasaltasi (ablative singular)
tasoiltasi (ablative plural)
tasallesi (allative singular)
tasoillesi (allative plural)
tasanasi (essive singular)
tasoinasi (essive plural)
tasaksesi (singular translative)
tasoiksesi (plural translative)
tasattasi (abessive singular)
tasoittasi (abessive plural)
tasoinesi (comitative plural)
tasamme (nominative singular)
tasamme (nominative plural)
tasamme (accusative nominative singular)
tasamme (accusative nominative plural)
tasamme (accusative genitive singular)
tasamme (accusative genitive plural)
tasamme (genitive singular)
tasojemme (genitive plural)
tasaimme (genitive plural rare)
tasaamme (partitive singular)
tasojamme (partitive plural)
tasassamme (inessive singular)
tasoissamme (inessive plural)
tasastamme (elative singular)
tasoistamme (elative plural)
tasaamme (illative singular)
tasoihimme (illative plural)
tasallamme (adessive singular)
tasoillamme (adessive plural)
tasaltamme (ablative singular)
tasoiltamme (ablative plural)
tasallemme (allative singular)
tasoillemme (allative plural)
tasanamme (essive singular)
tasoinamme (essive plural)
tasaksemme (singular translative)
tasoiksemme (plural translative)
tasattamme (abessive singular)
tasoittamme (abessive plural)
tasoinemme (comitative plural)
tasanne (nominative singular)
tasanne (nominative plural)
tasanne (accusative nominative singular)
tasanne (accusative nominative plural)
tasanne (accusative genitive singular)
tasanne (accusative genitive plural)
tasanne (genitive singular)
tasojenne (genitive plural)
tasainne (genitive plural rare)
tasaanne (partitive singular)
tasojanne (partitive plural)
tasassanne (inessive singular)
tasoissanne (inessive plural)
tasastanne (elative singular)
tasoistanne (elative plural)
tasaanne (illative singular)
tasoihinne (illative plural)
tasallanne (adessive singular)
tasoillanne (adessive plural)
tasaltanne (ablative singular)
tasoiltanne (ablative plural)
tasallenne (allative singular)
tasoillenne (allative plural)
tasananne (essive singular)
tasoinanne (essive plural)
tasaksenne (singular translative)
tasoiksenne (plural translative)
tasattanne (abessive singular)
tasoittanne (abessive plural)
tasoinenne (comitative plural)
tasansa (nominative singular)
tasansa (nominative plural)
tasansa (accusative nominative singular)
tasansa (accusative nominative plural)
tasansa (accusative genitive singular)
tasansa (accusative genitive plural)
tasansa (genitive singular)
tasojensa (genitive plural)
tasainsa (genitive plural rare)
tasaansa (partitive singular)
tasojaan (partitive plural)
tasojansa (partitive plural)
tasassaan (inessive singular)
tasassansa (inessive singular)
tasoissaan (inessive plural)
tasoissansa (inessive plural)
tasastaan (elative singular)
tasastansa (elative singular)
tasoistaan (elative plural)
tasoistansa (elative plural)
tasaansa (illative singular)
tasoihinsa (illative plural)
tasallaan (adessive singular)
tasallansa (adessive singular)
tasoillaan (adessive plural)
tasoillansa (adessive plural)
tasaltaan (ablative singular)
tasaltansa (ablative singular)
tasoiltaan (ablative plural)
tasoiltansa (ablative plural)
tasalleen (allative singular)
tasallensa (allative singular)
tasoilleen (allative plural)
tasoillensa (allative plural)
tasanaan (essive singular)
tasanansa (essive singular)
tasoinaan (essive plural)
tasoinansa (essive plural)
tasakseen (singular translative)
tasaksensa (singular translative)
tasoikseen (plural translative)
tasoiksensa (plural translative)
tasattaan (abessive singular)
tasattansa (abessive singular)
tasoittaan (abessive plural)
tasoittansa (abessive plural)
tasoineen (comitative plural)
tasoinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *tasa, perhaps from Proto-Uralic *taśa.

(military) line defined by a distance from a specific point, site or target


henkilö

henkilö (nominative singular)
henkilöt (nominative plural)
henkilö (accusative nominative singular)
henkilöt (accusative nominative plural)
henkilön (accusative genitive singular)
henkilöt (accusative genitive plural)
henkilön (genitive singular)
henkilöjen (genitive plural)
henkilöiden (genitive plural)
henkilöitten (genitive plural)
henkilöä (partitive singular)
henkilöjä (partitive plural)
henkilöitä (partitive plural)
henkilössä (inessive singular)
henkilöissä (inessive plural)
henkilöstä (elative singular)
henkilöistä (elative plural)
henkilöön (illative singular)
henkilöihin (illative plural)
henkilöllä (adessive singular)
henkilöillä (adessive plural)
henkilöltä (ablative singular)
henkilöiltä (ablative plural)
henkilölle (allative singular)
henkilöille (allative plural)
henkilönä (essive singular)
henkilöinä (essive plural)
henkilöksi (singular translative)
henkilöiksi (plural translative)
henkilöttä (abessive singular)
henkilöittä (abessive plural)
henkilöin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
henkilöni (nominative singular)
henkilöni (nominative plural)
henkilöni (accusative nominative singular)
henkilöni (accusative nominative plural)
henkilöni (accusative genitive singular)
henkilöni (accusative genitive plural)
henkilöni (genitive singular)
henkilöjeni (genitive plural)
henkilöideni (genitive plural)
henkilöitteni (genitive plural)
henkilöäni (partitive singular)
henkilöjäni (partitive plural)
henkilöitäni (partitive plural)
henkilössäni (inessive singular)
henkilöissäni (inessive plural)
henkilöstäni (elative singular)
henkilöistäni (elative plural)
henkilööni (illative singular)
henkilöihini (illative plural)
henkilölläni (adessive singular)
henkilöilläni (adessive plural)
henkilöltäni (ablative singular)
henkilöiltäni (ablative plural)
henkilölleni (allative singular)
henkilöilleni (allative plural)
henkilönäni (essive singular)
henkilöinäni (essive plural)
henkilökseni (singular translative)
henkilöikseni (plural translative)
henkilöttäni (abessive singular)
henkilöittäni (abessive plural)
henkilöineni (comitative plural)
henkilösi (nominative singular)
henkilösi (nominative plural)
henkilösi (accusative nominative singular)
henkilösi (accusative nominative plural)
henkilösi (accusative genitive singular)
henkilösi (accusative genitive plural)
henkilösi (genitive singular)
henkilöjesi (genitive plural)
henkilöidesi (genitive plural)
henkilöittesi (genitive plural)
henkilöäsi (partitive singular)
henkilöjäsi (partitive plural)
henkilöitäsi (partitive plural)
henkilössäsi (inessive singular)
henkilöissäsi (inessive plural)
henkilöstäsi (elative singular)
henkilöistäsi (elative plural)
henkilöösi (illative singular)
henkilöihisi (illative plural)
henkilölläsi (adessive singular)
henkilöilläsi (adessive plural)
henkilöltäsi (ablative singular)
henkilöiltäsi (ablative plural)
henkilöllesi (allative singular)
henkilöillesi (allative plural)
henkilönäsi (essive singular)
henkilöinäsi (essive plural)
henkilöksesi (singular translative)
henkilöiksesi (plural translative)
henkilöttäsi (abessive singular)
henkilöittäsi (abessive plural)
henkilöinesi (comitative plural)
henkilömme (nominative singular)
henkilömme (nominative plural)
henkilömme (accusative nominative singular)
henkilömme (accusative nominative plural)
henkilömme (accusative genitive singular)
henkilömme (accusative genitive plural)
henkilömme (genitive singular)
henkilöjemme (genitive plural)
henkilöidemme (genitive plural)
henkilöittemme (genitive plural)
henkilöämme (partitive singular)
henkilöjämme (partitive plural)
henkilöitämme (partitive plural)
henkilössämme (inessive singular)
henkilöissämme (inessive plural)
henkilöstämme (elative singular)
henkilöistämme (elative plural)
henkilöömme (illative singular)
henkilöihimme (illative plural)
henkilöllämme (adessive singular)
henkilöillämme (adessive plural)
henkilöltämme (ablative singular)
henkilöiltämme (ablative plural)
henkilöllemme (allative singular)
henkilöillemme (allative plural)
henkilönämme (essive singular)
henkilöinämme (essive plural)
henkilöksemme (singular translative)
henkilöiksemme (plural translative)
henkilöttämme (abessive singular)
henkilöittämme (abessive plural)
henkilöinemme (comitative plural)
henkilönne (nominative singular)
henkilönne (nominative plural)
henkilönne (accusative nominative singular)
henkilönne (accusative nominative plural)
henkilönne (accusative genitive singular)
henkilönne (accusative genitive plural)
henkilönne (genitive singular)
henkilöjenne (genitive plural)
henkilöidenne (genitive plural)
henkilöittenne (genitive plural)
henkilöänne (partitive singular)
henkilöjänne (partitive plural)
henkilöitänne (partitive plural)
henkilössänne (inessive singular)
henkilöissänne (inessive plural)
henkilöstänne (elative singular)
henkilöistänne (elative plural)
henkilöönne (illative singular)
henkilöihinne (illative plural)
henkilöllänne (adessive singular)
henkilöillänne (adessive plural)
henkilöltänne (ablative singular)
henkilöiltänne (ablative plural)
henkilöllenne (allative singular)
henkilöillenne (allative plural)
henkilönänne (essive singular)
henkilöinänne (essive plural)
henkilöksenne (singular translative)
henkilöiksenne (plural translative)
henkilöttänne (abessive singular)
henkilöittänne (abessive plural)
henkilöinenne (comitative plural)
henkilönsä (nominative singular)
henkilönsä (nominative plural)
henkilönsä (accusative nominative singular)
henkilönsä (accusative nominative plural)
henkilönsä (accusative genitive singular)
henkilönsä (accusative genitive plural)
henkilönsä (genitive singular)
henkilöjensä (genitive plural)
henkilöidensä (genitive plural)
henkilöittensä (genitive plural)
henkilöään (partitive singular)
henkilöänsä (partitive singular)
henkilöjään (partitive plural)
henkilöitään (partitive plural)
henkilöjänsä (partitive plural)
henkilöitänsä (partitive plural)
henkilössään (inessive singular)
henkilössänsä (inessive singular)
henkilöissään (inessive plural)
henkilöissänsä (inessive plural)
henkilöstään (elative singular)
henkilöstänsä (elative singular)
henkilöistään (elative plural)
henkilöistänsä (elative plural)
henkilöönsä (illative singular)
henkilöihinsä (illative plural)
henkilöllään (adessive singular)
henkilöllänsä (adessive singular)
henkilöillään (adessive plural)
henkilöillänsä (adessive plural)
henkilöltään (ablative singular)
henkilöltänsä (ablative singular)
henkilöiltään (ablative plural)
henkilöiltänsä (ablative plural)
henkilölleen (allative singular)
henkilöllensä (allative singular)
henkilöilleen (allative plural)
henkilöillensä (allative plural)
henkilönään (essive singular)
henkilönänsä (essive singular)
henkilöinään (essive plural)
henkilöinänsä (essive plural)
henkilökseen (singular translative)
henkilöksensä (singular translative)
henkilöikseen (plural translative)
henkilöiksensä (plural translative)
henkilöttään (abessive singular)
henkilöttänsä (abessive singular)
henkilöittään (abessive plural)
henkilöittänsä (abessive plural)
henkilöineen (comitative plural)
henkilöinensä (comitative plural)

henki (“life, state of being alive”) + -lö. Coined by Finnish physician and translator Wolmar Schildt in 1857.
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Some sources, including NSES, say that Schildt later came to dislike the word due to its ending in -ö (as it, according to him, made the word sound derisive) and tried to replace it with henkile, although without success.

coin

henkilömiina


layette

(US, military) A bin for storing equipment parts prior to their use.


lourd

fr-adj

lourd (feminine lourde, masculine plural lourds, feminine plural lourdes)

lourde (feminine)
lourds (masculine plural)
lourdes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French lourd, from Old French lorz, lourt, from Late Latin lurdus, lordus, probably from Latin lūridus (“sallow”), possibly influenced by Frankish *lort (“crooked, clumsy”); related to Old English lort (“crooked”).


система

ru-noun+

систе́ма • (sistéma) f inan (genitive систе́мы, nominative plural систе́мы, genitive plural систе́м, relational adjective систе́мный, diminutive систе́мка)

систе́ма (canonical)
sistéma (romanization)
систе́мы (genitive)
систе́мы (nominative plural)
систе́м (genitive plural)
систе́мный (adjective relational)
систе́мка (diminutive)
систе́ма (nominative singular)
систе́мы (nominative plural)
систе́мы (genitive singular)
систе́м (genitive plural)
систе́ме (dative singular)
систе́мам (dative plural)
систе́му (accusative singular)
систе́мы (accusative plural)
систе́мой (instrumental singular)
систе́мою (instrumental singular)
систе́мами (instrumental plural)
систе́ме (prepositional singular)
систе́мах (plural prepositional)
систе́ма (dated nominative singular)
систе́мы (dated nominative plural)
систе́мы (dated genitive singular)
систе́мъ (dated genitive plural)
систе́мѣ (dated dative singular)
систе́мамъ (dated dative plural)
систе́му (accusative dated singular)
систе́мы (accusative dated plural)
систе́мой (dated instrumental singular)
систе́мою (dated instrumental singular)
систе́мами (dated instrumental plural)
систе́мѣ (dated prepositional singular)
систе́махъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ English: systema

→ Ingrian: sisteema

Ru-система.ogg

From Latin systēma, from Ancient Greek σύστημᾰ (sústēmă).

(martial arts) systema (Russian martial art)


point-blank

From French point blanc (“white point”), originally referring to the white spot to be aimed at on a target (see blank's "bull's eye") or alternatively into empty space being fired horizontally.

Now, here's a useful tool—.470, telescopic sight, double ejector, point-blank up to three-fifty. That's the rifle I used against the Peruvian slave-drivers three years ago.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘I was the Flail of the Lord’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

Heavily armed militants launched a series of coordinated attacks in rural Assam on Tuesday, pulling villagers from their homes and shooting them at point-blank range, witnesses said.

2014 December 24, “Assam rebels kill scores on night of brutal attacks in Indian state”, in The Guardian:

Fifteen of those people had died of natural causes, the rest from gunshot wounds, including point-blank shots, or from shrapnel.

2022 April 3, Carlotta Gall, Andrew E. Kramer, “In a Kyiv Suburb,‘They Shot Everyone They Saw’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(ballistics) The distance between a firearm and a target where a projectile in flight is expected to strike the centre of the target without adjusting the elevation of the firearm.


retirar

pt-verb

retirar (first-person singular present retiro, first-person singular preterite retirei, past participle retirado)

retiro (first-person present singular)
retirei (first-person preterite singular)
retirado (participle past)
retirar (impersonal infinitive)
retirar (first-person infinitive singular)
retirares (infinitive second-person singular)
retirar (infinitive singular third-person)
retirarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
retirardes (infinitive plural second-person)
retirarem (infinitive plural third-person)
retirando (gerund)
retirado (masculine participle past singular)
retirados (masculine participle past plural)
retirada (feminine participle past singular)
retiradas (feminine participle past plural)
retiro (first-person indicative present singular)
retiras (indicative present second-person singular)
retira (indicative present singular third-person)
retiramos (first-person indicative plural present)
retirais (indicative plural present second-person)
retiram (indicative plural present third-person)
retirava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
retiravas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
retirava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
retirávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
retiráveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
retiravam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
retirei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
retiraste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
retirou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
retiramos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
retirámos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
retirastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
retiraram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
retirara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
retiraras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
retirara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
retiráramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
retiráreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
retiraram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
retirarei (first-person future indicative singular)
retirarás (future indicative second-person singular)
retirará (future indicative singular third-person)
retiraremos (first-person future indicative plural)
retirareis (future indicative plural second-person)
retirarão (future indicative plural third-person)
retiraria (conditional first-person singular)
retirarias (conditional second-person singular)
retiraria (conditional singular third-person)
retiraríamos (conditional first-person plural)
retiraríeis (conditional plural second-person)
retirariam (conditional plural third-person)
retire (first-person present singular subjunctive)
retires (present second-person singular subjunctive)
retire (present singular subjunctive third-person)
retiremos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
retireis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
retirem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
retirasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
retirasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
retirasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
retirássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
retirásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
retirassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
retirar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
retirares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
retirar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
retirarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
retirardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
retirarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
retira (imperative second-person singular)
retire (imperative singular third-person)
retiremos (first-person imperative plural)
retirai (imperative plural second-person)
retirem (imperative plural third-person)
não retires (imperative negative second-person singular)
não retire (imperative negative singular third-person)
não retiremos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não retireis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não retirem (imperative negative plural third-person)

(reflexive, military) to retreat (to leave a battle or position where they are stationed)


heya

(sumo) the so-called "stable" of rikishi who train under the instruction of a particular shisho; the place where this group lives and trains


radarman

(US, naval) A person who operates all navigational and communications systems.


beasting

en-noun

beasting (usually uncountable, plural beastings)

(UK, military, slang) The imposition of arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.


transporte

Deverbal from transportar (“to transport”).

deverbal

/tɾɐ̃sˈpɔʁ.t͡ʃi/

/tɾɐ̃sˈpɔʁ.t͡ʃi/

/tɾɐ̃sˈpɔɾ.t͡ʃi/

/tɾɐ̃ʃˈpɔʁ.t͡ʃi/

[tɾɐ̃ʃˈpɔχ.t͡ʃi]

/tɾɐ̃ʃˈpɔɾ.tɨ/

(military) transport (vehicle used to transport troops and equipment)


suplex

Perhaps related to the suplay of classical wrestling, if not further inspired by super; also see -ex. Another explanation could be from sub + plecto, (meaning essentially I turn, twist, combine, or "braid" from under) which could ultimately reduce into English as suplex due to it being a novel innovation.

(professional wrestling) A wrestling move in which the wrestler picks up their opponent off the ground (or mat) and then, using a large portion of their own body weight, drives the opponent down on the mat by throwing them over their center of gravity, usually arching their back.


suplex

en-verb

suplex (third-person singular simple present suplexes, present participle suplexing, simple past and past participle suplexed)

suplexes (present singular third-person)
suplexing (participle present)
suplexed (participle past)
suplexed (past)

(transitive, professional wrestling) To subject to this maneuver.


Old Dart

Possibly from the river Dart in Devonshire which enters the sea at Dartmouth, location of a Royal Navy College. Royal Navy officers who were returning to England at the end of a foreign tour of duty referred to going back to the "Old Dart" for further training.
Alternatively a variation of "old dirt" (compare old sod).

(colloquial, UK, naval) Dartmouth Royal Navy College.


air base

air bases (plural)
airbase (alternative)

American officers have observed how Chinese troops stationed at American air bases have frequently refused to shoot at Japanese raiding planes. Asked by an American officer for the reason for this behavior, a Chinese officer at Lao-ho-k’ou air base in Hupeh answered (November 1944): “Well you see, if we shot down a Jap plane, the Japs would be angry and would take revenge and return and bomb the city and do a lot of damage.”

1968, Lyman P. Van Slyke, editor, The Chinese Communist Movement: A Report of the United States War Department, July 1945, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 90:

(military) A military airport, providing housing and support for aircraft and personnel.


有効

ja-noun

有(ゆう)効(こう) • (yūkō)

(judo) yuko, the points awarded for a type of move in a judo match or the judge's call of yuko


Dakota

Dakotas (plural)
Dacota (alternative)
Dacotah (alternative)
Dahcotah (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Dakota.wav

(military, aviation) Out of air-to-ground ordinance.


mora

(historical, military) An ancient Spartan military unit of about a sixth of the Spartan army, typically composed of hoplites.


leið

non-decl-blank-full

leið

leið (indefinite nominative singular)
leiðin (definite nominative singular)
leiðar (indefinite nominative plural)
leiðir (indefinite nominative plural)
leiðarnar (definite nominative plural)
leiðirnar (definite nominative plural)
leið (accusative indefinite singular)
leiðina (accusative definite singular)
leiðar (accusative indefinite plural)
leiðir (accusative indefinite plural)
leiðarnar (accusative definite plural)
leiðirnar (accusative definite plural)
leið (dative indefinite singular)
leiðinni (dative definite singular)
leiðum (dative indefinite plural)
leiðunum (dative definite plural)
leiðar (genitive indefinite singular)
leiðarinnar (definite genitive singular)
leiða (genitive indefinite plural)
leiðanna (definite genitive plural)

Icelandic: leið

Faroese: leið

Norwegian Nynorsk: leid, lei

Norwegian Bokmål: lei

Old Swedish: lēþ

Swedish: led

Danish: led

Norwegian Bokmål: led