The story
- Latin · derived frommusca“a fly”
- Middle French · borrowed frommouscheture
- English todaymuschetor
From Middle French mouscheture, from Latin musca (“a fly”).
Words from the same roots
Latinmusca all →
mosquitomusketmuscamuscarinemuscicidemuscifugemuscoid
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.