cornus

See also: Cornus

French

Adjective

cornus

1. masculine plural of cornu

Anagrams

• curons

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Latin

Etymology 1

Probably related to Ancient Greek κερασός (kerasós, “cherry”).

Noun

cornus f (genitive cornī); second declension

1. cornel, dogwood

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cornus	cornī
genitive	cornī	cornōrum
dative	cornō	cornīs
accusative	cornum	cornōs
ablative	cornō	cornīs
vocative	corne	cornī

Descendants

• Aromanian: cornu, coarnã
• Catalan: corneller
• English: cornel
• French: cornouille, cornouiller
• Friulian: cuargnâl, cuargnolâr, cuargnul
• Italian: corniolo, corniola

• Occitan: cormièr, còrma
• Portuguese: corniso
• Romanian: corn, coarnă
• Spanish: corno, cornejo, cornizo
• Venetian: cornołaro, cornołer, crognoło

Etymology 2

Inflected form of cornū (“horn”)

Noun

cornūs

1. genitive singular of cornū

References

• cornus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cornus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cornus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• cornus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cornus in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• cornus in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press