英语词汇klaxon的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	klaxon
词源	klaxon. Klaxon was coined in 1908 from the Greek klazein, “to make a noise,” by the inventor who patented the first elec- trically operated horn on an automobile. When the patent ex- pired, this trademark passed into the dictionaries without a capital as a word for any horn.
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