cornu

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin cornu (horn). Doublet of corn and corno.

Noun[edit]

cornu (plural cornua)

  1. A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
  2. A brass instrument from Ancient Rome about 3 metres long in the shape of a letter 'G'.

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Aromanian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin cornu. Compare Romanian corn.

Noun[edit]

cornu n (plural coarni/coarne)

  1. horn
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Latin cornus. Compare Romanian corn.

Noun[edit]

cornu n (plural cornji)

  1. cornel, European cornel, Cornus mas
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Fala[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cornū,

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Noun[edit]

cornu m (plural cornus)

  1. (Mañegu, Valverdeñu) horn

References[edit]

  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin cornūtus.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kɔʁ.ny/
  • (file)

Adjective[edit]

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

  1. horned

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Latin[edit]

cornua caprī (horns of a goat)

Etymology[edit]

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).

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Noun[edit]

cornū n (genitive cornūs); fourth declension

  1. 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.)
  2. a tusk
  3. the horns of the moon
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.10–14:
      Nūllus adhūc mundō praebēbat lūmina Tītān,
      nec nova crēscendō reparābat cornua Phoebē,
      nec circumfūsō pendēbat in āere tellūs
      ponderibus lībrāta suīs, nec bracchia longō
      margine terrārum porrēxerat Amphītrītē; []
      No Titan [Sun] as yet provided light to the world, nor did Phoebe [the Moon] repair new horns in waxing, nor did the Earth hang in the surrounding air, balanced by its own weights, nor had Amphitrite [the sea] stretched her arms down the far borders of the lands; []
  4. an arm or wing of an army
    Synonym: latus
  5. a bow
  6. (music) a horn as a musical instrument
  7. any substance like the material of a horn, such as the bill of a bird
  8. the end of a book or scroll, usually made of ivory
  9. (figuratively) power, strength, might

Declension[edit]

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[edit]

  • 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, [...]
  • Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Evangelium seccundum Lucam 1,69:
    et ērēxit cornū salūtis nōbīs in domō Dāvīd puerī suī

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References[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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.