mosquete

Galician

Etymology

Attested in 1458. From Italian moschetto (“musket”), from moschetta (“Crossbow bolt”), probably through Middle French mouschete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mosˈkete̝/

Noun

mosquete m (plural mosquetes)

1. musket
   • 1458, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 341:

     que lles tomaran ao dito Loys Caldellas duas dobras et triinta mrs e a espada et o mosquete et a capa et huun çinto et un esqueiro

     they robbed Lois Caldelas two doubloons, thirty mor. and the sword and the musket [crossbow?!] and the cloack and a sheath and a tinderbox

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mosquete”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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Portuguese

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian moschetto (“musket”), diminutive of mosca (“fly”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin musca (“fly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mos.ˈke.te/

Noun

mosquete m (plural s)

1. musket (firearm)

Related terms

• mosquetão, mosquetaria, mosquetear, mosqueteiro

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Spanish

Noun

mosquete m (plural mosquetes)

1. musket