ballista

Borrowed from Latin ballista, from Ancient Greek βαλλίστρα (ballístra), from βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”).

• IPA^(key): /bəˈlɪstə/

ballista (plural ballistas or ballistae or ballistæ)

1. (weaponry, historical) An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.

• catapult

< Latin

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑlːistɑ/, [ˈbɑlːis̠t̪ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlːistɑ
• Syllabification^(key): bal‧lis‧ta

ballista

1. ballista (military engine)

• varsijousi
• ballista on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fi

• balista
• ballistra

From Ancient Greek βαλλίστρα (ballístra), from βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /balˈlis.ta/, [bälˈlʲɪs̠t̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /balˈlis.ta/, [bälˈlist̪ä]
• Homophone: Ballista

ballista f (genitive ballistae); first declension

1. ballista

First-declension noun.

• arcuballista
• ballistārius
• ballistica
• carroballista

• catapulta
• onager

• “ballista”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ballista”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ballista in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ballista in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “ballista”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ballista”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• ballist (less common)

ballista c

1. a ballista

• ballista in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)