musket的词源

英文词源

musket: musket: see mosquito
musket (n.): "firearm for infantry" (later replaced by the rifle), 1580s, from Middle French mousquette, also the name of a kind of sparrow-hawk, diminutive of mosca "a fly," from Latin musca (see midge). The hawk so called either for its size or because it looks speckled when in flight. Early firearms often were given names of beasts (compare dragoon, also falcon, a kind of cannon mentioned by Hakluyt), and the equivalent word in Italian was used to mean "an arrow for a crossbow." The French word was borrowed earlier into English (early 15c.) in its literal sense of "sparrow-hawk."

来自中古法语mousquette,雀鹰，来自拉丁语musca,蚊子，苍蝇，词源同midge,mosquito.因高飞的鹰看起来如同一只蚊子而得名。后用这种雀鹰来命名17，18世纪发明的一种新式火枪，即毛瑟枪。比较dragoon,dragon.

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