different between coronet vs trumpet

English

Etymology

From Middle French couronnette, from Old French coronete, diminutive of corone (“crown”), from Latin corona.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k???n?t/, /k????n?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k???n?t/, /k????n?t/

Noun

coronet (plural coronets)

1. A small crown, such as is worn by a noble.
2. The ring of tissue between a horse's hoof and its leg.
3. The traditional lowest regular commissioned officer rank in the cavalry.
4. Any of several hummingbirds in the genus Boissonneaua.
5. A species of moth, Craniophora ligustri.

Synonyms

(junior commissioned officer):

• ensign (infantry equivalent of the cavalry coronet)
• second lieutenant (OF-1), first NATO commissioned officer grade above OF-0 trainee officer

Translations

Anagrams

• Crotone

Latin

Verb

cor?net

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of cor?n?

English

Etymology

From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (“trumpet”), from Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative.

Akin to Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”), Old Norse trumba (“pipe; trumpet”). More at drum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??mp?t/
• Rhymes: -?mp?t

Noun

trumpet (plural trumpets)

2. (music) A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.

3. Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 88:

     Next day, he sent a trumpet to the general, with a detail of my misfortune, in hopes of retrieving what I had lost […] .

4. The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.

5. (figuratively) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
   • That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times […] to be the trumpet of his praises.

6. A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
7. A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.
   • 1974, O.T.A., Proceedings (page 4)

     The result of adopting the latter principle would be that even unimportant T-junctions would be in the form of trumpets or half-cloverleaf junctions.

8. A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.

Synonyms

• (musical instrument): cornet

Hyponyms

• (musical instrument): natural trumpet, straight trumpet

Meronyms

• (musical instrument, opening): bell, codon, mouth

Derived terms

• natural trumpet
• straight trumpet
• trumpeter, trumpetist

Translations

References

• 2009. Tipbook Trumpet and Trombone, Flugelhorn and Cornet: The Complete Guide. Hugo Pinksterboer. Pg. 141.

Verb

trumpet (third-person singular simple present trumpets, present participle trumpeting, simple past and past participle trumpeted)

1. (intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified

2. (intransitive) To play the trumpet.

3. (transitive, intransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.

4. (transitive, intransitive) To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
5. (transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.

Translations

Related terms

• trumpet player
• trumpeter
• trumpetress

Middle English

Alternative forms

• trompette, trumpette, trompet, troumpette

Etymology

From Old French trompette; equivalent to trumpe +? -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?trump?t/, /?trumpit/

Noun

trumpet (plural trumpetes)

1. A trumpet; a small brass instrument.
2. One who uses or plays such an instrument.

Descendants

• English: trumpet
• Scots: trumpet

References

• “trompet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-16.

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?m?pe?t/

Noun

trumpet c

2. trumpet

Declension

See also

• trumpeta (verb)
• trumpetare c (“trumpeter”)
• trumpetblåsare c (“trumpeter”)

Hyponyms

• piccolotrumpet c
• signaltrumpet c
• fanfartrumpet c
• bastrumpet c
• aidatrumpet c

References

• trumpet in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• trumpet in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Etymology 2

Adjective

trumpet

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of trumpen.