catapulta

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A Roman catapult (weapon for launching projectiles).
    — The projectile machines, or antient artillery, used by our ancestors about the time of the Norman invasion, were the scorpion, catapulta, balista, and onager of the Romans, with divers other species of the same machines, under a variety of different appellations.

词形变化

catapultae plural catapultæ plural

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin catapulta. Doublet of catapult.
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