fusilier

• n. フュージリエ
• n.（フュージリエ）人の名前；（仏）フュージリエ

フランス語のfusilier、マスケット銃、ラテン語のfocus、炉、火から。17世紀のマスケット銃は火打石で発火させた。

fusilier (n.)

also fusileer, 1670s, "soldier armed with a musket," from French fusilier "musket" (17c.), literally "piece of steel against which a flint strikes flame," from Old French fuisil, foisil "steel for striking fire; flint; whetstone; grindstone" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *focilis (petra) "(stone) producing fire," from Latin focus "hearth," in Vulgar Latin "fire" (see focus (n.)). Retained by certain regiments of the British army that were formerly armed with fusils.

1. Fusilier Jones ran towards the Ops Room to find his lieutenant.

燧発銃団兵士ジョーンズは作戦指揮室に向かって中尉長官を探しに走った。