cothurnus

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English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin cothurnus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos).

Noun

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cothurnus (plural cothurni)

  1. A buskin used in ancient tragedy.
  2. (figurative) The stilted style denoting ancient tragedy.
    • 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 410
      Madame Grandoni had insisted on the fact that she was an actress, and this little speech seemed a glimpse of the cothurnus.

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cothurnus m (genitive cothurnī); second declension

  1. cothurnus, buskin
  2. tragedy (dramatic or poetic style)

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cothurnus cothurnī
Genitive cothurnī cothurnōrum
Dative cothurnō cothurnīs
Accusative cothurnum cothurnōs
Ablative cothurnō cothurnīs
Vocative cothurne cothurnī

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: cothurn (learned)
  • French: cothurne (learned)
  • German: Kothurn (learned)
  • Italian: coturno (learned)
  • Polish: koturn (learned)
  • Russian: коту́рн (kotúrn) (learned)
  • Spanish: coturno (learned)

References

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  • cothurnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cothurnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cothurnus 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)
  • cothurnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • cothurnus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cothurnus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin