stentorian

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The Word of the Day for April 21 is:

stentorian   \sten-TOR-ee-un\   adjective 
     : extremely loud

Example sentence:
     "Stop that man," Tom yelled in a stentorian voice as he jostled his way 
through the crowd after the pickpocket.

Did you know?
     The Greek herald Stentor was known for having a voice that came through 
loud and clear. In fact, in the _Iliad_, Homer described Stentor as a man whose 
voice was as loud as that of fifty men together. Stentor's powerful voice made 
him a natural choice for delivering announcements and proclamations to the 
assembled Greek army during the Trojan War, and it also made his name a byword 
for any person with a loud, strong voice. Both the noun "stentor" and the 
related adjective "stentorian" pay homage to the big-voiced warrior, and both 
have been making noise in English since the early 17th century.





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