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

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cornus	cornī
Genitive	cornī	cornōrum
Dative	cornō	cornīs
Accusative	cornum	cornōs
Ablative	cornō	cornīs
Vocative	corne	cornī

Derived terms

• corneus
• cornētum

Descendants

• Aromanian: cornu, coarnã
• Catalan: corneller
• English: cornel
• French: cornouille, cornouiller
• Friulian: cuargnâl, cuargnolâr, cuargnul
• ⇒ Galician: corneira, capudre, cornabude, cancereixo
• 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, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
• cornus in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
• cornus in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934
• cornus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor, Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898
• cornus in William Smith, editor, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly, 1854, 1857
• cornus in Richard Stillwell et al., editor, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976