corno
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Italian corno, from Latin cornu (“horn”). Doublet of corn and cornu.
Noun
[edit]corno (plural corni)
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese corno, from Latin cornu (“horn”). Cognate with Portuguese corno and Spanish cuerno.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]corno m (plural cornos)
- (countable and uncountable) horn
- 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana., A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 378:
- Et os hũus tãgíã cornos et os outros pipas, et os que estauã perlos muros da vila, algũus deles deostauã et dezíã moyto mal aos de fora.
- And some were playing horns and others pipes, and of the ones that were by the walls of the town, some insulted and told many mean things to the ones outside
- 1813, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Rogos de un escolar gallego:
- Sobre un tapiz dua mesa
mais louro do que é o carbon
hay procesos, e un tinteiro
feito de corno de boy.- Over the cloth of a table,
blacker than coal,
there are lawsuits and an inkwell
made with ox horn
- Over the cloth of a table,
- horn (wind instrument)
- 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 136:
- Et moy rregeo tãgeo o corno que pero que era de marfil que o fendeu cõ o bafo, et al quebrantouselle as veas do pescoço et os nerueos
- And very strongly he blew the horn, but since it was made of ivory he broke it with the puff, and also he broke the veins of the neck and the nerves
- cuckoopint (Arum italicum)
- European rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes nasicornis)
Interjection
[edit]corno
- rats!
References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “corno”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “corno”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “corno”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “corno”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “corno”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin cornū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]corno m (plural (in all meanings) corni m or (alternatively when referring to animals) corna f)
- (zoology) horn, antler (of an animal)
- le corna della capra ― goat's horns
- (music) horn
- i corni da caccia ― hunting horns
- (geography) horn (peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land)
- il Corno d'Africa ― horn of Africa
- horn (material, or object made of material)
- a horn-shaped amulet worn to ward off evil
Usage notes
[edit]- The feminine plural corna is used only in the zoological meaning of the term as an alternative form of corni.
- corni di pecora (“goat's horns”)
- corna di pecora (“goat's horns”)
- For other meanings use the masculine plural corni.
- corni francesi (“French horns”)
- corni inglesi (“cors anglais; English horns”)
Derived terms
[edit]- cornare
- cornetto
- cornista
- Corno d'Africa (“Horn of Africa”)
- corno da caccia (“hunting horn”)
- corno da scarpe (“shoehorn”)
- corno inglese (“cor anglais”)
- dire peste e corna (“to backbite”)
- fare le corna
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin cornū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).
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Noun
[edit]corno m (plural cornos, metaphonic)
Etymology 2
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Noun
[edit]corno m (plural cornos)
Etymology 3
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Verb
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Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Latin cornū. Doublet of cuerno.
Noun
[edit]corno m (plural cornos)
- horn (musical instrument)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]corno m (plural cornos)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “corno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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