taratantara

• tantara
• tarantara

taratantara (plural taratantaras)

1. The onomatopoeia of a particular sound made by a bugle or trumpet.
   • 1698, John Vanbrugh, Aesop:

     To boot and saddle again they sound. Rog. Tara! Taratantara! Taratantara!

Onomatopoeic.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ta.raˈtan.ta.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ta.raˈtan.ta.ra]

taratantara

1. An onomatopoeia of the sound made by a trumpet.
   • 239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius, Annales 452:

     […] at tuba terribili sonitu taratantara dixit.

     […] and the trumpet with terrifying tone sounded taratantara.

• “taratantara”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “taratantara”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• taratantara in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung