mosquete
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Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Attested in 1458. From Italian moschetto (“musket”), from moschetta (“Crossbow bolt”), probably through Middle French mouschete.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mosquete m (plural mosquetes)
- musket
- 1458, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, 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[edit]
- “mosquete” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “mosquete” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “mosquete” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian moschetto (“musket”), diminutive of mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca (“fly”), through French mousquet.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mosquete m (plural mosquetes)
- musket (ancient firearm, portable, with a wide barrel and flintlock ignition, initially supported on a fork for firing and widely used in the 16th century)
- (colloquial) slap
- (Brazil) small stature horse
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Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
mosquete m (plural mosquetes)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “mosquete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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