different between clarion vs clairon

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French claron, from Medieval Latin clario (“trumpet”), from Latin cl?rus (“clear”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?klæ?i?n/

Noun

clarion (plural clarions)

1. (historical, music) A medieval brass instrument, related to the trumpet.

   Synonym: claro
2. The sound of a clarion, or any sound resembling the loud, piping note of a clarion.
3. An organ stop consisting of pipes with reeds giving a high pitched note.
4. (heraldry) A type of musical instrument resembling an organ.

Derived terms

• clarion call

Translations

Adjective

clarion (comparative more clarion, superlative most clarion)

1. Brilliantly clear.

   her clarion top notes

2. Loud and clear.

   clarion trumpeters

Verb

clarion (third-person singular simple present clarions, present participle clarioning, simple past and past participle clarioned)

1. (intransitive) To sound a clarion (trumpet-like instrument).
2. (figuratively) To make a similar sound to the instrument.
   • 1946, Rebecca Rogers, They Ask for Bread (page 16)

     His deep voice clarioned the words and he paused, hearing them whisper away into their last faint echoes in the organ loft.

Further reading

• clarion (instrument) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Locrian, acrinol, alicorn, carolin, clairon, clarino

English

Noun

clairon (plural clairons)

1. (music) the second register of a clarinet.

See also

• chalumeau
• altissimo
• clarion

Anagrams

• Clarion, Locrian, acrinol, alicorn, carolin, clarino, clarion

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl?.???/

Noun

clairon m (plural clairons)

1. (music) bugle (music: a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves)
2. bugler (someone who plays the bugle)
3. (music) clairon (saxophone register)

Derived terms

• claironner
• claironnement

Further reading

• “clairon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).