muzzle的词源

英文词源

muzzle: muzzle: see amuse
muzzle (n.): late 14c., "device put over an animal's mouth to stop it from biting, eating, or rooting," from Old French musel "muzzle," also "snout, nose" (12c., Modern French museau), from muse "muzzle," from Gallo-Roman *musa "snout" (source also of Provençal mus, Old Spanish mus, Italian muso), of unknown origin, possibly related to Latin morsus "bite" (but OED finds "serious difficulties" with this). Meaning "projecting part of the head of an animal" is from early 15c. in English; sense of "open end of a firearm" first recorded 1560s.
muzzle (v.): "to put a muzzle on," early 15c., from muzzle (n.). Figurative use from 1610s. Related: Muzzled; muzzling.

来自古法语musel,口鼻，猪鼻，狗鼻，可能来自拉丁语morsus,咬，词源同mordant,morsel.引申词义给狗，马等动物带的口套，以及枪口等。

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