hornus

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from either:

• Proto-Italic *hōrnos, from earlier *hojōrnos, from *ho- (“this”) +‎ *jōros (“year”) +‎ *-nos, medial element from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year”), compare hodiē, hodiernus, first part of the formation finds parallel in German heuer, but notably with the determiner declined, cognate with Latin hōra, English year;
• or perhaps, less likely, ho- +‎ vē̆rnus (“of spring”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhoːr.nus/, [ˈhoːrnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.nus/, [ˈɔrnus]

Adjective

hōrnus (feminine hōrna, neuter hōrnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. this year's, grown this year

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	hōrnus	hōrna	hōrnum		hōrnī	hōrnae	hōrna
Genitive	hōrnī	hōrnae	hōrnī		hōrnōrum	hōrnārum	hōrnōrum
Dative	hōrnō		hōrnō		hōrnīs
Accusative	hōrnum	hōrnam	hōrnum		hōrnōs	hōrnās	hōrna
Ablative	hōrnō	hōrnā	hōrnō		hōrnīs
Vocative	hōrne	hōrna	hōrnum		hōrnī	hōrnae	hōrna

Derived terms

• hōrnō (adverb)
• hōrnōtinus

References

• “hornus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hornus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 297