Word of the day: stentorian

The word of the day is stentorian:

< Stentor n.² + -ian suffix. Compare Greek Στεντόρειος, Latin Stentoreus.

1. Of the voice: Loud, like that of Stentor (see Stentor n.² 1); very loud and far-reaching; hence, of uttered sounds, song, laughter and the like.  

2. That utters stentorian sounds. (OED),

which brings us to Stentor:

< Greek Στέντωρ, Hom. Iliad v. 785.   

The name of a Greek warrior in the Trojan war, ‘whose voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men’; applied allusively to a man of powerful voice. (OED)

"During the gubernatorial campaign last year, Cuomo was widely thought to possess a measure of self-regard even greater than that of his predecessor Eliot Spitzer. Yet Cuomo soon proved that he had the maturity and the horse sense to learn from Spitzer’s missteps; he began his term in January not with stentorian declarations of war but, rather, by identifying crucial goals and then employing time-honored political means to achieve them—intelligently, methodically, and successfully."

 - David Remnick, "It gets better", July 11 & 18, 2011 The New Yorker