Where does “antimissile” come from?
antimissile (French) comes from French missile, from Latin missilis, from Latin mittere, from Proto-Indo-European meyth₂- — to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to...
antimissile (French): antimissile
Ancestry of “antimissile”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | missile | missile |
| 2 | Latin | missilis | That may be thrown |
| 3 | Latin | mittere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | meyth₂- | to hurt; to exchange, remove; to replace, to... |