different between musket vs fusil

English

Alternative forms

• musquet

Etymology

First attested around 1210 as a surname, and later in the 1400s as a word for the sparrowhawk (Middle English forms: musket, muskett, muskete (“sparrow hawk”)), from Middle French mousquet, from Old Italian moschetto (a diminutive of mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca) used to refer initially to a sparrowhawk (given its small size or speckled appearance) and then a crossbow arrow and later a musket, adhering to a pattern of naming firearms and cannons after birds of prey and similar creatures (compare falcon, falconet), a sense which was also borrowed into French and then (around 1580) into English. Cognate to Spanish mosquete, Portuguese mosquete. Smoothbore firearms continued to be called muskets even as they switched from using matchlocks to flintlocks to percussion locks, but with the advent of rifled muskets, the word was finally displaced by rifle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?sk?t/, /?m?sk?t/

Noun

musket (plural muskets)

1. A kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle.

   Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me, with your musket, fife and drum.

   Sam, Sam, pick up thy musket.

2. (falconry) A male Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus).

Derived terms

• musketeer

Related terms

• musketoon

Translations

See also

• musket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Danish

Etymology

From French mousquet (“musket”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /musk?t/, [mu?s???d?]

Noun

musket c (singular definite musketten, plural indefinite musketter)

1. musket
2. (dialectal) A firearm in general.

Inflection

Further reading

• musket on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?s?k?t/
• Hyphenation: mus?ket
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch musket.

Noun

musket n (plural musketten, diminutive musketje n)

1. musket
2. Obsolete spelling of mosket

Derived terms

• musketkogel
• musketloop

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

musket n (uncountable)

1. hundreds and thousands, nonpareils, tiny sprinkles

Derived terms

• musketflik
• musketzaad

Middle English

Alternative forms

• muskett, muskete, muskytte, moskett, muscet, muskyte

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Northern French mousket, borrowed itself from Italian moschetto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?musk?t/, /?muskit/

Noun

musket (plural musketes)

1. A sparrowhawk or musket.

Descendants

• English: musket

References

• “musket(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-03.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fju?z?l/

Etymology 1

From Old French fusel, fuisel, from a late Latin diminutive of Latin f?sus (“spindle”).

Noun

fusil (plural fusils)

1. (heraldry) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle French fusil, ultimately from Latin focus (“hearth; fire”). Doublet of fusee.

Noun

fusil (plural fusils)

1. (now historical) A light flintlock musket or firelock.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol II, ch. 43:

     [H]e out of meer wantonness attempted to trip up the heels of the soldier that stood next him, but failed in the execution, and received a blow of his breast with the butt end of a fusil, that made him stagger several paces backward.

Synonyms

• fusee

Translations

Etymology 3

Alternative forms.

Adjective

fusil (comparative more fusil, superlative most fusil)

1. Obsolete form of fusile.
   • 1728, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England

     A kind of fusil marble.

French

Etymology

From Old French fuisil, foisil, from Vulgar Latin *foc?lis (petra), from Latin focus. Compare Italian fucile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.zi/

Noun

fusil m (plural fusils)

1. rifle, gun
2. steel to strike sparks from a flint (pierre à fusil)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Catalan: fusell
• ? Spanish: fusil

Further reading

• “fusil” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French fusil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu?sil/, [fu?sil]
• Rhymes: -il

Noun

fusil m (plural fusiles)

1. rifle

   Synonym: rifle

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: pusil
  • ? Western Bukidnon Manobo: pusil
• ? Ilocano: pusil

Related terms

Further reading

• “fusil” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.