cornu

English

Etymology

Latin cornu (“horn”)

Noun

cornu (plural cornua)

  1. A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cornu in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin cornu. Compare Daco-Romanian corn.

Noun

cornu n (plural coarni/coarne)

  1. horn

Etymology 2

From Latin cornus. Compare Daco-Romanian corn.

Noun

cornu n (plural cornji)

  1. cornel, European cornel, Cornus mas

French

Etymology

From Latin cornūtus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔʁ.ny/

Adjective

cornu (feminine singular cornue, masculine plural cornus, feminine plural cornues)

  1. horned

Further reading

Latin

cornua caprī (horns of a goat)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂u, *ḱr̥h₂-no-, both from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Cognates include English horn, hirn; Ancient Greek κρᾱνίον (krāníon, “skull”), κέρας (kéras, “horn”); Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅga, “horn, tusk”). See also cerebrum (“brain”), cervus (“deer”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkor.nuː/, [ˈkɔr.nuː]
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Noun

cornū n (genitive cornūs); fourth declension

  1. a horn, antler
  2. a tusk
  3. the horns of the moon
  4. an arm or wing of an army
  5. (music) a horn as a musical instrument
  6. any substance like the material of a horn, such as the bill of a bird
  7. the end of a book or scroll, usually made of ivory
  8. (figuratively) power, strength, might

Inflection

Fourth declension neuter.

Case Singular Plural
nominative cornū cornua
genitive cornūs cornuum
dative cornū cornibus
accusative cornū cornua
ablative cornū cornibus
vocative cornū cornua

Note: The genitive singular is also cornū in later times.

Quotations

  • Vegetius Renatus, artis veterinariae sive mulomedicinae libri. In: Scriptores rei rusticae ex recensione Io. Gottlob Schneider cum notis. Tomus quintus, Augusta Taurinorum, 1830, p. 72 (lib. I, cap. 20) and 369 (lib. VI, cap. 10):
    [...] salis cappadocis uncias 3, cornu cervini, lapidis gagatis masculi, lapidis gagatis foeminae, ana uncias 3, [...]
    [...] addisque cornu cervini unciam, sinopidis Pontici pastillos tres, opopanacis semiunciam, [...]

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • cornu in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cornu in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cornu in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • cornu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • cornu in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cornu in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Further reading

  • Wörterbuch der Lateinischen Sprache, nach historisch-genetischen Principien, mit steter Berücksichtigung der Grammatik, Synonymik und Alterthumskunde, bearbeitet von Dr. Wilhelm Freund. Nebst mehreren Beilagen linguistischen und archäologischen Inhalts. Erster Band. A–C, Leipzig, 1834, p. LXVII–LXXXVIII „III. Ueber den genit. sing. der Wörter cornu, gelu, genu etc.“
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