klaxon

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

A loud electric alarm or horn, especially as used in automobiles in the early 20th century.

Verb

To produce a loud, siren-like wail.

Concepts

avertisseur

⚠️

klaxon

corne

alarme incendie

avertisseur d’incendie

Synonymes

horn

hooter

claxon

trumpet

🎺

brass wind instrument

electric horn

bugle

klaxon horn

clarion

klaxon-horn

Traductions

bocina

claxon

hoorn

Hupe

claxon

toeter

buzina

botzina

cornu

trompa

corn

tromba

🎺

Horn

clacson

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈklæks(ə)n/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From the trademark Klaxon, based on Ancient Greek κλάζω (klázō, “make a sharp sound; scream”) (from Proto-Indo-European *glag- (“to make a noise, clap, twitter”), from *gal- (“to roop, scream, shout”)). The word was coined by Franklyn Hallett Lovell Jr., the founder of the Lovell-McConnell Manufacturing Co. of Newark, New Jersey, USA, which in 1908 obtained a licence of the patent to the machine generating the sound from American inventor Miller Reese Hutchison (1876–1944).