trumpet English · revision 978

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈtɹʌmpɪt/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|trumpette]], [[bor|fro|trompette]], a diminutive of ''trompe'' “trumpet, horn”,^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU) of Germanic origin, related to [[goh|trumpa|t=trumpet]] and [[non|trumba]].^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline) It is related to [[trump]] “trumpet”.^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A musical wind instrument of bright, powerful tone, used especially for signals and fanfares (14th century; before 1393 in Barnhart).^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The word was applied to many kinds of instrument over the centuries, straight or curved, of metal, wood or horn;^(Etymonline) the modern orchestral trumpet developed fully in the 18th and early 19th centuries.^(Etymonline) From 1447 a trumpet was also anything that proclaims or celebrates, as in ''to blow one's own trumpet''.^(OED 1989) The verb meant “to blow a trumpet” (1530) and “to proclaim loudly” (1604),^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) and was used from 1828 for the cry of an elephant.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * before 1393 – the instrument.^(Barnhart 1995)

+ * c. 1447 – the spelling ''trumpet''; something that proclaims.^(Barnhart 1995)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1530 – verb, to blow a trumpet.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1995)^(MW Collegiate)

+ * 1604 – verb, to proclaim loudly.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1659 – an organ stop.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1828 – verb, of an elephant, to make its cry.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A soprano [[brass]] wind instrument of a long metal tube looped and ending in a flared [[bell]], with a cup-shaped mouthpiece and, in the modern form, three valves.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Something shaped or sounding like a trumpet, such as an [[ear trumpet]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)

+ # An organ stop with a tone like that of the trumpet.^(AHD)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A loud resounding cry, as of an [[elephant]].^(AHD)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To play a trumpet.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To make a loud trumpet-like cry.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[trumpeter]]

+ * [[ear trumpet]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[trump]]

+ * [[trombone]]

+ * [[tromba]]

+ * [[cornet]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}