Editing Trombone (section)

=== Etymology ===
"Trombone" comes from the [[Italian (language)|Italian]] word ''tromba'' (trumpet) plus the suffix ''-one'' (large), meaning "large trumpet".

During the Renaissance, the equivalent English term was "[[sackbut]]". The word first appears in court records in 1495 as "''shakbusshe''". "''Shakbusshe''" is similar to "''sacabuche''", attested in [[Spain]] as early as 1478. The French equivalent "''saqueboute''" appears in 1466.<ref name="Michault">{{cite book |last1=Michault |first1=Pierre |title=Le doctrinal du temps présent , compilé par maistre Pierre Michault, secrétaire du très puissant duc de Bourgoingne |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k70431s/f17.item |via=Gallica, [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]] |access-date=4 December 2018 |page=16 |language=fr}}</ref>

The German "''Posaune''" long predates the invention of the slide and could refer to a natural trumpet as late as the early fifteenth century.{{sfn|Guion|2010|p=22}}