sackbut

sackbut

English

Sackbutts

Alternative forms

• sacbut, sackbutt, sagbut, shagbolt, shakbusshe

Etymology

Middle French sacquer (“to push”) + bouter (“to pull”)

Noun

sackbut (plural sackbuts)

1. (music) A brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone. It was derived from the medieval slide trumpet.

Derived terms

• sackbuttist

Translations

brass instrument

Catalan: sacabutx (ca) m Dutch: baroktrombone m or f Esperanto: renesanctrombono, baroktrombono, sakbuto French: sacqueboute (fr) f, sacquebute (fr) f, saquebute (fr) f German: Posaune (de), Barockposaune f, Renaissanceposaune f, Sackbut n Italian: sackbut m Norwegian: Bokmål: sackbut, barokktrombone Nynorsk: sackbut, barokktrombone

Occitan: sacabota f Portuguese: sacabuxa (pt) m Spanish: sacabuche m Swedish: barocktrombon

See also

• sackbut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sackbut in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• subtack