clarion

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈklæ.ɹɪ.ən/
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• General-American: /ˈklæ.ɹi.ən/
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• General-American: /ˈklɛ-/
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• rhymes with -æɹiən
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• CMU ARPABET: K L EH1 R IY0 AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The noun is derived from Middle English clarion, clarioun (“trumpet with a narrow tube and a shrill sound, clarion; clarion player”) [and other forms], from Old French claron, clarïon (“clarion”) [and other forms], from Medieval Latin clāriōn, clario, clārōn (“clarion; trumpet”), from Latin clārus (“audible; clear, distinct, loud; (visually) bright, clear”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh1- (“to call, summon; to cry”). The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun.

From Middle English clariounen (“of a horn or trumpet: to blow, sound”), from clarioun (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitives of verbs). Later uses may also be derived directly from the noun.

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: heleä — of a sound, a voice, a message, etc.: brilliantly clear
• Armenian: եղջյուր (eġǰyur) — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Bashkir: борғо (borğo) — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Catalan: clarí — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Dutch: klaroen — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Finnish: klarino (S-shaped) — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Finnish: pasuuna — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• French: clairon — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• German: Clairon — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• German: Fanfare — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Hungarian: harsona — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Italian: clarino — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Italian: chiarina — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Japanese: クラリオン — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Norwegian Nynorsk: clarino — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Occitan: claron — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Middle Persian: nʾd (nā̆y) — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Polish: trąbka sygnałowa — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Polish: sygnałówka — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Portuguese: clarim — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Russian: кларион (klarion) — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Russian: горн (gorn) — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Russian: рожо́к (rožók) — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Spanish: clarín — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Spanish: cornetín — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Swedish: jägarhorn — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Ukrainian: горн (horn) — medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal
• Finnish: klarinon ääni — sound of a clarion, or any sound resembling the loud, high-pitched note of a clarion
• Finnish: pasuunan ääni — sound of a clarion, or any sound resembling the loud, high-pitched note of a clarion
• Finnish: clarion — organ stop consisting of pipes with reeds giving a high-pitched note like that of a clarion
• Finnish: merkinantotorvi — charge thought to represent a type of wind instrument, a keyboard instrument like a spinet, or perhaps a rest used by a knight to support a lance during jousting
• Finnish: ilmoittaa pasuunalla — to announce or herald (something) using a clarion
• Finnish: ilmoittaa — to announce or herald (something) clearly, especially so as to stir or unite people
• Finnish: julistaa — to announce or herald (something) clearly, especially so as to stir or unite people
• Finnish: soida kuin pasuuna — to sound a clarion; to make a high-pitched, piercing sound like that of a clarion