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# Word of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-28/
- Published: 2019-08-27T18:15:24.000Z
- Updated: 2019-08-20T19:57:32.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

The word for today is…

clarion (adj) – Loud and clear: a clarion call to resistance.

(noun) – (Music) 1\. A medieval trumpet with a shrill clear tone.  
2\. The sound of this instrument or a sound resembling it.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/clarion?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : In the Middle Ages, clarion was a noun, the name for a trumpet that could play a melody in clear, shrill tones. The noun has since been used for the sound of a trumpet or a similar sound. By the early 1800s, English speakers also started using the word as an adjective for things that ring as clear as the call of a well-played trumpet. Not surprisingly, clarion ultimately derives (via the Medieval Latin clario-) from clarus, which is the Latin word for “clear.” In addition, clarus gave English speakers clarify, clarity, declare (“to make clearly known”), and clear itself.