† musmonn.

Forms: 1600s musiman, 1600s musmone, 1600s musmones, 1600s 1800s musmon, 1600s–1700s musimon, 1700s–1800s musman, 1800s mousmon.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French musmon.

Etymology: < Middle French musmon (1562 in Du Pinet's translation of Pliny: compare quot. 1601; compare Middle French musimone (1564), French musimon (1791; 1549 in Middle French in sense ‘mule’)) < classical Latin musmōn- , musmō (Pliny; also musimōn- , musimō (Cato, Lucilius); compare Hellenistic Greek μούσμων (Strabo)), probably of Sardinian origin: compare mouflon n. N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (mɒ·smǫn) /ˈmʌsmɒn/.

Obsolete.

= mouflon n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > ovis musimon (moufflon)

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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xlix. 228 There is in Spaine, but especially in the Isle Corsica, a kind of Musmones, not altogether unlike to sheepe.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 175/1 A Musimon.—This Beast is engendered of a She-Goat and a Ram... Some term it a..Musmon.

1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. i. 12 Gmelin describes an animal..found in Siberia..and Gesner..imagines it to be the Musimon of the antients.

1794 Sporting Mag. 3 64 The Mouflon or Musman has been classed both of the sheep and the goat kind.

1874 Scribner's Monthly 8 420 They were no ordinary sheep, but a species usually found in the mountainous regions of the temperate zone, to which Harbert gave the name of musmon.

1887 E. A. Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) II. 361 A mouflon or a mousmon who has not a thick armour of wool.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	musmon
释义	† musmonn. Forms: 1600s musiman, 1600s musmone, 1600s musmones, 1600s 1800s musmon, 1600s–1700s musimon, 1700s–1800s musman, 1800s mousmon. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French musmon. Etymology: < Middle French musmon (1562 in Du Pinet's translation of Pliny: compare quot. 1601; compare Middle French musimone (1564), French musimon (1791; 1549 in Middle French in sense ‘mule’)) < classical Latin musmōn- , musmō (Pliny; also musimōn- , musimō (Cato, Lucilius); compare Hellenistic Greek μούσμων (Strabo)), probably of Sardinian origin: compare mouflon n. N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (mɒ·smǫn) /ˈmʌsmɒn/. Obsolete. = mouflon n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > ovis musimon (moufflon) muffle1601 musmon1601 mouflon1774 muffrone1864 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xlix. 228 There is in Spaine, but especially in the Isle Corsica, a kind of Musmones, not altogether unlike to sheepe. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 175/1 A Musimon.—This Beast is engendered of a She-Goat and a Ram... Some term it a..Musmon. 1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. i. 12 Gmelin describes an animal..found in Siberia..and Gesner..imagines it to be the Musimon of the antients. 1794 Sporting Mag. 3 64 The Mouflon or Musman has been classed both of the sheep and the goat kind. 1874 Scribner's Monthly 8 420 They were no ordinary sheep, but a species usually found in the mountainous regions of the temperate zone, to which Harbert gave the name of musmon. 1887 E. A. Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) II. 361 A mouflon or a mousmon who has not a thick armour of wool. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1601
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