mangonel

From Old French mangonel, from Latin manganellus, manganum, from Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon).

mangonel (plural mangonels)

1. (historical) A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and burning objects.
   1. A traction trebuchet (trebuchet operated by manpower).
      • 1934, Robert Graves, chapter XXXII, in I, Claudius: , New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, →OCLC, page 401:

        The cavalry were on the wings and the siege-engines, mangonels and catapults, planted on sand-dunes.

   2. (non-technical, often proscribed) An onager (type of catapult).

• “mangonel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Ultimately from Old French mangonel. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑŋ(ɡ)oːˈnɛl/
• Hyphenation: man‧go‧nel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

mangonel m (plural mangonellen)

1. mangonel

   Synonym: mangeneel

mangonel oblique singular, m (oblique plural mangoneaus or mangoneax or mangoniaus or mangoniax or mangonels, nominative singular mangoneaus or mangoneax or mangoniaus or mangoniax or mangonels, nominative plural mangonel)

1. mangonel

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (mangonel, supplement)