{"id":22550,"date":"2022-11-25T13:48:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T13:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22550"},"modified":"2022-11-25T14:01:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T14:01:08","slug":"water-trumpets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22550","title":{"rendered":"Water Trumpets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night while talking about the weather in French, as you do, one expression that came up was <strong>une trombe d\u2019eau<\/strong>, which means a <strong>cloudbust<\/strong>, <strong>downpour<\/strong> or <strong>waterspout<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/french-english\/trombe+d%27eau\">source<\/a>]. There have been several of these this week.<\/p>\n\r\n    <div>        \r\n    <video id=\"plyr6a9afa5e43070\" autoplay controls class=\"easy-video-player\">\r\n       <source src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/videos\/cloudburst.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\" \/>\r\n    <\/video>\r\n    <\/div>    <script>\r\n        const evplayerplyr6a9afa5e43070 = new Plyr(document.getElementById('plyr6a9afa5e43070'));\r\n        evplayerplyr6a9afa5e43070.ratio = '16:9';\r\n        evplayerplyr6a9afa5e43070.iconUrl = 'https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/wp-content\/plugins\/easy-video-player\/lib\/plyr.svg';\r\n        evplayerplyr6a9afa5e43070.blankVideo = 'https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/wp-content\/plugins\/easy-video-player\/lib\/blank.mp4';  \r\n    <\/script>\n<p>The word <strong>trombe<\/strong> [t\u0281\u0254\u0303b] on its own means <strong>waterspout<\/strong> or <strong>whirlwind<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/french-english\/trombe\">source<\/a>]. It comes from the Italian <strong>tromba<\/strong> (trumpet, horn, bugler, well, shaft), possibly from the Frankish <em>*trumba<\/em> (trumpet), which is of imitative origin [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/french-english\/trombe\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other phrases featuring <strong>trombe<\/strong> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>entrer en trombe = to burst in, storm in<\/li>\n<li>sortir en trombe = to burst out, storm out<\/li>\n<li>partir en trombe = to accelerate away<\/li>\n<li>passer en trombe = to zoom past, hurtle past<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A related word from the same roots is <strong>trompe<\/strong> [t\u0281\u0254\u0303p], which means a <strong>trumpet<\/strong>, the <strong>trunk<\/strong> of an elephant [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/trompe#French\">source<\/a>] or a <strong>squinch<\/strong> (a small arch, corbelling, etc, across an internal corner of a tower, used to support a superstructure such as a spire) [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/squinch\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/59558222@N06\/5452915599\/in\/photolist-6CRH7e-4eENc2-XHkF-vT6RRj-AAhbLa-qFNxzA-EUL1Bn-2mXnJVY-CaVGmq-9iRBQc-92Kvf6-aBUDBM-crczoS-dByc9f-bhd3d6-qFUzLM-7TZkEE-2hbXRN2-P6ZhFs-4DUBRx-9xumhS-CexD9N-ABJ8hH-84zbcz-XHkG-9rxRhy-DZKieW-FAeg2B-qFWeJX-dNsi6s-nzftfb-6og6d5-CJM5kW-24XVFMT-faY8F2-ekFiw1-G3qzgk-53itAs-dSzTeP-oEEaNF-CWdcvo-dSFsiC-74o8ud-2iHb4uS-ekFiY9-99u6PK-4yKoB6-dSzUcX-dSzTtn-e4eCPZ\" title=\"Shiny brass 3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5099\/5452915599_ef8b34588d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Shiny brass 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Another word with the same roots is <strong>tromper<\/strong> [t\u0281\u0254\u0303.pe] (to deceive, cheat on, disapoint, elude), which comes from the Old French <em>tromper<\/em> (to tramp, trump, delude), from <em>trompe<\/em> (horn, trump, trumpet) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tromper#French\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>trumpet<\/strong> also comes from the same roots, via the Old French <em>trompette<\/em> (trumpet), a diminutive or <em>trompe<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/trumpet\">source<\/a>]. As does the word <strong>trombone<\/strong>, via the Italian <strong>trombone<\/strong> (trombone, annoying or boring person), from <strong>tromba<\/strong> (trumpet) and <strong>-one<\/strong> (augmentative suffix) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/trombone#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>trump<\/strong> an elephant makes, which is also a slang word for flatulence in the UK, and used to mean a trumpet, comes from the Old French French <em>trompe<\/em> (horn, trump, trumpet) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/trump#Etymology_2\">source<\/a>]. However <strong>trump<\/strong> as in a <strong>trump card<\/strong> or a suit in cards is thought to come from the French <strong>triomphe<\/strong> (triumph), or the Old French <em>triumphe<\/em>, from the Latin <em>triumphus<\/em> (a hymn in honour of Bacchus, a triumph or celebration), from the Old Latin <em>triumpus<\/em>, from the Etruscan <em>*\ud800\udf08\ud800\udf13\ud800\udf09\ud800\udf00\ud800\udf0c\ud800\udf10\ud800\udf04<\/em> (*\u03b8riampe),  from the Ancient Greek <em>\u03b8\u03c1\u03af\u03b1\u03bc\u03b2\u03bf\u03c2<\/em> (thr\u00edambos &#8211; a hymn to Dionysus) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/trump#Etymology_1\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night while talking about the weather in French, as you do, one expression that came up was une trombe d\u2019eau, which means a cloudbust, downpour or waterspout [source]. There have been several of these this week. The word trombe [t\u0281\u0254\u0303b] on its own means waterspout or whirlwind [source]. It comes from the Italian tromba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,104,222,107,110,111,10,15,34,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-greek-","category-english","category-etruscan-mekh-rasnal","category-etymology","category-frankish","category-french","category-language","category-latin","category-old-french","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22558,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22550\/revisions\/22558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}