corniculum
See also: Corniculum
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin corniculum (“little horn”).
Noun
corniculum (plural cornicula)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “corniculum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive of cornū (“horn”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /korˈni.ku.lum/, [kɔrˈnɪkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /korˈni.ku.lum/, [korˈniːkulum]
Noun
corniculum n (genitive corniculī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | corniculum | cornicula |
| genitive | corniculī | corniculōrum |
| dative | corniculō | corniculīs |
| accusative | corniculum | cornicula |
| ablative | corniculō | corniculīs |
| vocative | corniculum | cornicula |
Synonyms
- (little horn): cornulum
Derived terms
Descendants
- Asturian: corneyu
References
- “corniculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “corniculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- corniculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “corniculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “corniculum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “corniculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin