Editing Clarinet (section)

==Etymology==
The word "clarinet" may have entered the English language via the French {{lang|fr|clarinette}} (the feminine diminutive of [[Old French]] {{lang|fro|clarin}}), or from [[Occitan language|Provençal]] {{lang|oc|clarin}} {{gloss|oboe}},<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2018 |title=clarinet |encyclopedia=[[The American Heritage Dictionary|The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language]] |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |url=https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=clarinet |editor-last=Pickett |editor-first=Joseph |edition=5th |isbn=978-1-328-84169-8}}</ref> originating from the Latin root {{lang|la|clarus}} {{gloss|clear}}.<ref>{{cite web |last=Harper |first=Douglas |date=2017 |title=clarinet |url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/clarinet#etymonline_v_13772 |accessdate=24 October 2022 |website=[[Online Etymology Dictionary]] }}</ref> The word is related to [[Middle English]] {{lang|enm|clarion}}, a type of trumpet, the name of which derives from the same root.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |year=2021 |title=clarinet |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins |publisher=Oxford University Press |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198868750.001.0001/acref-9780198868750-e-1028 |editor-last=Cresswell |editor-first=Julia |edition=3rd |isbn=978-0-1988-6875-0}}</ref>

The earliest mention of the word "clarinette" being used for the instrument dates to a 1710 order placed by the Duke of Gronsfeld for two instruments made by [[Jacob Denner]].{{sfn|Page et al.|2015}}{{Sfn|Hoeprich|2008|p=21}} The English form "clarinet" is found as early as 1733, and the now-archaic "clarionet" appears from 1784 until the early 20th century.{{Sfn|Rendall|Bate|1971|pp=1–2, 69}}<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |last=Jacobs |first=Arthur |encyclopedia=A New Dictionary of Music |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-351-53488-8 |page=74 |title=clarionet}}</ref>

A person who plays the clarinet is called a ''clarinetist'' (in [[North American English]]), a ''clarinettist'' (in [[British English]]), or simply a clarinet player.{{Sfn|Ellsworth|2015|p=28}}