trumpeter C2+ Topic:People & Society US /ˈtrʌmpətər/ UK /ˈtrʌmpɪtə/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 noun a person who plays the trumpet The trumpeter sounded a fanfare as the procession arrived. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a person who plays the trumpet buglercornetisthornist Word family Related forms trumpettrumpeting Etymology AI details From trumpet (from Old French trompette, diminutive of trompe 'horn, trumpet', of Germanic origin) + the agentive suffix -er. trompette Old French trompe Old French View etymology graph -> Topics People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # trumpeter **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈtrʌmpətər/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈtrʌmpɪtə/ ## Meanings 1. a person who plays the trumpet ## Examples - The trumpeter sounded a fanfare as the procession arrived. ## Synonyms - bugler - cornetist - hornist ## Related Forms - trumpet - trumpeting ## Roots and Affixes - Root: trompette - Root: trompe ## Etymology From trumpet (from Old French trompette, diminutive of trompe 'horn, trumpet', of Germanic origin) + the agentive suffix -er. ## AI Etymology Trumpeter comes from trumpet (from Old French trompette, diminutive of trompe 'horn, trumpet', of Germanic origin) + the agentive suffix -er. The historical chain includes Old French trompette and Old French trompe. The quoted older sense, "horn, trumpet," supplies the immediate semantic anchor for trumpeter. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, and borrowed: the word trumpeter carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "a person who plays the trumpet". Related English forms include trumpet and trumpeting. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization. ## Topics - People & Society - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown