munition
English
Etymology
From LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#MUNITION mūnitiō (“a defence, fortification”) via FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#MUNITIONCategory:English terms derived from French#MUNITION munition, from mūnīre (“fortify, defend (with a wall)”)Category:Latin links with redundant wikilinks#MUNITION + -tiō, from moenia (“city walls, defensive walls, or walls in general”). Equivalent to munite + -ionCategory:English terms suffixed with -ion#MUNITION.
Pronunciation
Noun
munition (plural munitions)Category:English lemmas#MUNITIONCategory:English nouns#MUNITIONCategory:English countable nouns#MUNITIONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MUNITIONCategory:Pages with entries#MUNITIONCategory:Pages with 2 entries#MUNITION
- (chiefly in the plural) Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition.
- 1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] :
- Just as we can say that an English girl who leaves the narrow circle of her old life, and goes into a munition factory and joins a union and takes part in its debates, will never after be a docile home-slave; so we can say that the clergyman who helps in Y. M. C. A. work in France, or in Red Cross organization in America, will be less the bigot and formalist forever after.Category:English terms with quotations#MUNITION
- (chiefly in the plural, militaryCategory:en:Military#MUNITION, NATO) Bombs, rockets, missiles (complete explosive devices, in contrast to e.g. guns).
- (rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#MUNITION, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#MUNITION) A tower or fortification.
- 1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Habacuc 2:1:
- I wil stand vpon my watch, and fixe my steppe vpon the munition: and I wil behold, to see what may be sayd to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.Category:English terms with quotations#MUNITION
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
munition (third-person singular simple present munitions, present participle munitioning, simple past and past participle munitioned)Category:English lemmas#MUNITIONCategory:English verbs#MUNITIONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MUNITIONCategory:Pages with entries#MUNITIONCategory:Pages with 2 entries#MUNITION
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#MUNITION) To supply with munitions.
- 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 154:
- Why was I there, munitioning, blacklegging, slaving as though my bread depended on it?Category:English terms with quotations#MUNITION
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#MUNITIONCategory:French terms derived from Latin#MUNITION mūnitiōnem, from mūniō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /my.ni.sjɔ̃/Category:French 3-syllable words#MUNITIONCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#MUNITION
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Noun
munition f (plural munitions)Category:French lemmas#MUNITIONCategory:French nouns#MUNITIONCategory:French countable nouns#MUNITIONCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#MUNITIONCategory:French feminine nouns#MUNITIONCategory:Pages with entries#MUNITIONCategory:Pages with 2 entries#MUNITION
- ammunition (weaponry)
Usage notes
Generally used in the plural.
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: munition, ammunition
Further reading
- “munition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012