klaxon
['klæksən]
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中文词源
Klaxon 高音喇叭
商标名，来自希腊语klazo,尖叫，尖叫声，词源同clang,clangor.
英文词源
- klaxon (n.)
- "loud warning horn," 1908, originally on automobiles, said to have been named for the company that sold them (The Klaxon Company; distributor for Lovell-McConnell Mfg. Co., Newark, N.J.), but probably the company was named for the horn, which bore a word likely based on Greek klazein "to roar," cognate with Latin clangere "to resound."
英英释意
- 1. a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles