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Clarinet

3 stages from Italian to English.

Today it means a woodwind instrument played with a single reed
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clarino
Italian · 1600s
"a clear, bright trumpet"
a high trumpet, from clarus (clear), describing the instrument's bright tone
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clarinette
French · 1700s
"a reed woodwind instrument"
adapted in French for the newly developed reed woodwind instrument
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clarinet
English · 1770s
"a single-reed woodwind instrument"
settled as the English word for the single-reed woodwind instrument
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