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bugle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bju???l/
- Rhymes: -u???l
Etymology 1
From Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Latin buculus (“young bull; ox; steer”).
Noun
bugle (plural bugles)
- A horn used by hunters.
- (music) a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
- Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
- The sound of something that bugles.
- A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
Synonyms
- (shaped like a bugle): cone, funnel
Hypernyms
- musical instrument
Derived terms
- bugler
Coordinate terms
- trumpet
Translations
Verb
bugle (third-person singular simple present bugles, present participle bugling, simple past and past participle bugled)
- To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.
Synonyms
- trumpet
Translations
Etymology 2
From Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”).
Noun
bugle (plural bugles)
- a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
- 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 207.
- With the exception of a woman in a black silk dress with bugles who, incredible as it may seem, had ordered cocoa and sparkling limado simultaneously and was washing down a meal of Cambridge sausages and pastry with alternate draughts of both liquids, the place was empty.
- 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 207.
Translations
Adjective
bugle (comparative more bugle, superlative most bugle)
- (obsolete) jet-black
Etymology 3
From Middle English bugle (“bugleweed”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Medieval Latin bugilla, probably related to Late Latin bugillo.
Noun
bugle (plural bugles)
- A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover, Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
- Synonyms: bugleweed, carpet bugle, ground pine
Translations
Further reading
- Bugle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
bugle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- bulge
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /by?l/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English bugle, itself from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Latin buculus.
Noun
bugle m (plural bugles)
- bugle
Etymology 2
From Old French bugle, probably borrowed from Medieval Latin bugula, probably related to Late Latin bugillo (cf. bouillon).
Noun
bugle f (plural bugles)
- bugle, bugleweed
References
- “bugle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin b?culus (“bullock”).
Noun
bugle m (oblique plural bugles, nominative singular bugles, nominative plural bugle)
- bugle (type of horn, often used in battle)
- (Can we date this quote?) Fouke le Fitz Waryn, ed. E. J. Hathaway, P. T. Ricketts, C. A. Robson and A. D. Wilshere, ANTS 26-28 (1975).
- oy un chevaler soner un gros bugle
- (I) hear a knight sounding a large bugle
- oy un chevaler soner un gros bugle
- (Can we date this quote?) Fouke le Fitz Waryn, ed. E. J. Hathaway, P. T. Ricketts, C. A. Robson and A. D. Wilshere, ANTS 26-28 (1975).
Descendants
- ? Middle English: bugle (through Anglo-Norman)
- English: bugle
- French: beugler
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ophicleide
English
Noun
ophicleide (plural ophicleides)
- (music) A keyed brass baritone bugle, now replaced by the tuba in orchestral music
Derived terms
- ophicleidist
Translations
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