cornuto
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Borrowed from Italian cornuto, from Latin cornūtus (“horned”).
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cornuto (plural cornutos or cornutoes)
- (obsolete) A cuckold.
- a. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, scene 5:
- No, Master Brook, but the peaking cornuto / her husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual / 'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our / encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested, / and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy
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cornuto (feminine cornuta, masculine plural cornuti, feminine plural cornute)
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cornuto m (plural cornuti)
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cornūtō