Etymology

mouflon

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Today it means: A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica. Full definition →

First used c. 1770French mouflon
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The story

  1. French · borrowed frommouflon
  2. English todaymouflon

Unadapted borrowing from French mouflon, from Italian muflone. From 1765–1775.

First known use, by meaning

  • from c. 1770 A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.