firearms were often named after animals, and the word musket derived from the French word mousquette, which is a male sparrowhawk. An alternative theory is that derives from the 16th-century French mousquet, {{nowrap}}, from the Italian moschetti, {{nowrap}}, meaning the bolt of a crossbow. The Italian moschetti is a diminutive of mosca, a fly

Terminology

The first recorded usage of the term "musket" or moschetti

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