saxophone

saxophone

See also: Saxophone and saxophoné

English

An alto saxophone.

Etymology

Borrowed from French saxophone, a combination of the surname of its inventor Adolphe Sax (1814–1894) + -o- + -phone (“something that makes a sound”), from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice”). The first element surname is a variant of the German Sachs (“Saxon”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsæksəfoʊn/

• audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

saxophone (plural saxophones)

1. A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.

   Synonyms: sax, gobble-pipe, saxomaphone

Derived terms

Derived terms

• alto saxophone
• baritone saxophone
• bass saxophone
• contrabass saxophone
• saxophonist
• sopranino saxophone
• sopranissimo saxophone
• soprano saxophone
• subcontrabass saxophone
• tenor saxophone

Translations

a musical instrument of the woodwind family

Afrikaans: saxofoon Albanian: saksofon (sq) m Arabic: سَاكْسُفُون‎ m (sāksufūn) Armenian: սաքսոֆոն (hy) (sakʿsofon) Asturian: saxofón m Azerbaijani: saksafon Basque: saxofoi Belarusian: саксафо́н m (saksafón) Bengali: স্যাক্সোফোন (sẏaksophon) Bulgarian: саксофо́н (bg) m (saksofón) Burmese: ဆက်ဆိုဟွန်း (hcakhcuihwan:) Catalan: saxòfon (ca) m, saxofon (ca) m Cherokee: ᎠᏤᎷᎯᏍᏗ (atseluhisdi) Chinese: Cantonese: 色士風, 色士风 (sik1 si6 fung1) Mandarin: 薩克斯管／萨克斯管 (sàkèsīguǎn), 薩克斯風／萨克斯风 (zh) (sàkèsīfēng), 薩克斯／萨克斯 (zh) (sàkèsī), 薩克管／萨克管 (zh) (sàkèguǎn) Czech: saxofon (cs) m Danish: saxofon c Dutch: saxofoon (nl) m Esperanto: saksofono Estonian: saksofon Finnish: saksofoni (fi) French: saxophone (fr) m Galician: saxofón (gl) m, saxo (gl) m Georgian: საქსოფონი (saksoponi) German: Saxofon (de) n Greek: σαξόφωνο (el) n (saxófono) Hebrew: סַקסוֹפוֹן‎ (he) m (saksofón) Hindi: सैक्सोफ़ोन m (saiksofon) Hungarian: szaxofon (hu) Icelandic: saxófónn Indonesian: saksofon (id) Irish: sacsafón m Italian: sassofono (it) m Japanese: サクソフォン (ja) (sakusofon) Kazakh: саксофон (saksofon) Khmer: សាក់សូហ្វូន (saksoufoun) Korean: 색소폰 (saeksopon) Kyrgyz: саксофон (saksofon) Latin: saxophonus m Latvian: saksofons m Lithuanian: saksofonas m Macedonian: саксофон m (saksofon) Malay: saksofon (ms) Maltese: sassofonu m Maori: pūtohe, rehu kōkō Marathi: सॅक्सोफोन m (sĕksophon) Mongolian: Cyrillic: саксофон (mn) (saksofon) Mongolian: ᠰᠠᠻᠰᠣᠹᠣᠨ (sakhsofon) Norwegian: Bokmål: saksofon (no) m Nynorsk: saksofon m Persian: ساکسوفون‎ (fa) (sâksofon) Piedmontese: sassòfon m Polish: saksofon (pl) m Portuguese: saxofone (pt) m Romanian: saxofon (ro) n Russian: саксофо́н (ru) m (saksofón) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: са̏ксофо̄н m Roman: sȁksofōn (sh) m Slovak: saxofón m Slovene: saksofon (sl) m Spanish: saxofón m, saxófono m Swahili: saksofoni Swedish: saxofon (sv) Tagalog: saksopon Tajik: саксофон (saksofon) Thai: แซ็กโซโฟน (sɛ́k-soo-foon) Turkish: saksafon (tr) Turkmen: saksofon Ukrainian: саксофо́н m (saksofón) Uzbek: saksofon (uz) Vietnamese: xacxô, xắc xô Yiddish: סאַקסאָפֿאָן‎ m (saksofon)

References

• Wilson, R.M., and Reaney, Percy H., Dictionary of English Surnames, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 1995.

Further reading

• saxophone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From the surname of its inventor Adolphe Sax (1814–1894) + -o- +‎ -phone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sak.sɔ.fɔn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophones: saxophonent, saxophones

Noun

saxophone m (plural saxophones)

1. saxophone

Descendants

• → English: saxophone
• → Spanish: saxofón

Verb

saxophone

1. inflection of saxophoner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “saxophone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.