cornett

English

Etymology

Old French cornet, a diminutive of corne (“horn”), from Latin cornū.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːnɪt/, /kɔːˈnɛt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɔɹˈnɛt/

Noun

cornett (plural cornetts)

1. (music) An early horn wind instrument used in European music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Not to be confused with later brass instrument.

Synonyms

• cornetto

Derived terms

• cornet
• cornettist
• mute cornett

Translations

wind instrument

• Bulgarian: ци́нк m (cínk), ци́нка (bg) f (cínka)
• Catalan: cornetto m, corneta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: cink (cs) m
• Danish: zink (da) c or n, sink (da) c or n
• Dutch: zink (nl) f or m, cornetto m
• Esperanto: klariono, korneto
• Estonian: tsink (et)
• Finnish: sinkki (fi)
• French: cornet à bouquin (fr) m
• German: Zink (de) m
• Hebrew: קוֹרְנֵטוֹ m (korenéto)
• Hungarian: cink (hu), cornett, kornett (hu)
• Italian: cornetto (it) m
• Japanese: ツィンク (tsinku), コルネット (ja) (korunetto)
• Korean: 코르넷 (koreunet)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: zink m or n, zinke m or n, sink (no) m or n, sinke m or n

  Nynorsk: zink m or n, zinke m or n, sink (nn) m or n

• Occitan: cornetto m
• Polish: cynk (pl) m
• Portuguese: corneto (pt) m
• Russian: корне́т (ru) m (kornét), ци́нк (ru) m (cínk)
• Saterland Frisian: Sink
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} ко̀рнет m, ^{(please verify)} ци̏нк m

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} kòrnet (sh) m, ^{(please verify)} cȉnk (sh) m

• Spanish: cornetto m, corneta renacentista f, corneta negra f, corneta curva f
• Swedish: sinka (sv) c, zinka (sv) c

Further reading

• cornett on Wikipedia.Wikipedia