Trumpet

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Middle English: from Old French trompette, diminutive of trompe (see trump2). The verb dates from the mid 16th century.

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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.

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trumpet (n.)

late 14c., from Old French trompette "trumpet," diminutive of trompe (see trump (n.2)).

trumpet (v.)

1520s, from trumpet (n.). Figurative sense of "to proclaim, extol" is attested from 1580s. Related: Trumpeted; trumpeting.