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trumpet
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)
- (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.
- 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 […] .
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 88:
- The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
- (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.
- A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
- 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.
- 1974, O.T.A., Proceedings (page 4)
- 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)
- (intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified
- (intransitive) To play the trumpet.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.
- (transitive, intransitive) To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
- (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.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
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)
- A trumpet; a small brass instrument.
- 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
- 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
- absolute indefinite neuter form of trumpen.
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tucket
English
Etymology 1
From tuck (“a blow, a drum beat”), from Old French touchet (“stroke, blow”). Compare toccata. Compare also Middle French toquer from Old French *toquer (“to strike”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?t?k?t/
- Rhymes: -?k?t
- Hyphenation: tuck?et
Noun
tucket (plural tuckets)
- (music) A fanfare played on one or more trumpets.
Etymology 2
Compare Italian tocchetto (“a ragout of fish, meat”), from tocco (“a bit, morsel”), Late Latin tucetum (“a thick gravy”), tuccetum (“a thick gravy”).
Noun
tucket (plural tuckets)
- (obsolete) A steak; a collop.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Taylor to this entry?)
References
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