cornu
English
Etymology
Latin cornu (“horn”)
Noun
cornu (plural cornua)
- A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
Derived terms
- cornu ammonis
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 Romanian corn.
Noun
cornu n (plural coarni/coarne)
- horn
Related terms
- curnut
Etymology 2
From Latin cornus. Compare Romanian corn.
Noun
cornu n (plural cornji)
- cornel, European cornel, Cornus mas
Related terms
- coarnã
French
Etymology
From Latin cornūtus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔʁ.ny/
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Adjective
cornu (feminine cornue, masculine plural cornus, feminine plural cornues)
- horned
Related terms
- cor
Further reading
- “cornu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kornū, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂u, *ḱr̥h₂-no-, both from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).
Cognate with English horn, hirn; Ancient Greek κρᾱνίον (krāníon, “skull”), κέρας (kéras, “horn”); Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅgá, “horn, tusk”). See also cerebrum (“brain”), cervus (“deer”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkor.nuː/, [ˈkɔrnuː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkor.nu/, [ˈkɔrnu]
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Noun
cornū n (genitive cornūs); fourth declension
- a horn, antler
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.189-190:
- ductōrēsque ipsōs prīmum, capita alta ferentēs
cornibus arboreīs, sternit- And first the leaders themselves, bearing their heads high with branching antlers, [Aeneas] strikes down.
(Demonstrating his military skill, Aeneas first targets the “leaders” – in this case, three stags.)
- And first the leaders themselves, bearing their heads high with branching antlers, [Aeneas] strikes down.
- ductōrēsque ipsōs prīmum, capita alta ferentēs
- a tusk
- the horns of the moon
- an arm or wing of an army
- Synonym: latus
- a bow
- (music) a horn as a musical instrument
- any substance like the material of a horn, such as the bill of a bird
- the end of a book or scroll, usually made of ivory
- (figuratively) power, strength, might
Declension
Fourth-declension noun (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, [...]
- Vulgata Latina Sancti Hieronymi, Evangelium Seccundum Lucam 1,69:
- et ērēxit cornū salūtis nōbīs in domō Dāvīd puerī suī, [...]
Derived terms
- corneolus
- cornēscō
- corneus
- cornicen
- corniculāns
- corniculātus
- corniculum
- cornifer
- cornifrons
- corniger
- cornipēs
- cornuālis
- cornuārius
- cornuātus
- cornūcōpia
- cornulum
- cornupeta
- cornūtus
- ūnicornis
Descendants
- Aromanian: cornu
- Asturian: cuernu
- Catalan: corn
- Dalmatian: cuarno
- English: cornet, corn, -corn
- French: cor, corne
- Friulian: cuar
- Galician: corno
- → Irish: corn
- Istriot: cuorno
- Italian: corno
- Old French: corn, corne
- Portuguese: corno
- Romanian: corn
- Romansch: corn
- Sardinian: corru
- Sicilian: cornu
- Spanish: cuerno
- Venetian: corno
- → Welsh: corn
- Occitan: còrn
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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.“