Corsican

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Etymology 1

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Compare Old French corn (corner, secluded place).

Noun

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scornu m (plural scorni)

  1. (secluded) place, corner, nook
    • 1984, A Filetta (lyrics and music), “U mare è u fiume”, in Cuntè:
      Quandu in un scornu hè notte, // in l'altru u sole sorte.
      When in a place it is night, in another the Sun rises.

Etymology 2

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From Vulgar Latin *excornum.

Noun

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scornu m (uncountable)

  1. shame, humiliation

Further reading

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  • scornu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Sicilian

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Etymology 1

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From Vulgar Latin *excornum.

Noun

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scornu m (uncountable)

  1. shame, humiliation
    • 1785 – 1787, Giovanni Meli, Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza 12.54:
      A scornu nostru rignirà indefessu / l'omu dunqui, chi pensa, e chi ragiuna?
      Will then a man who thinks and reasons reign tirelessly to our shame?

Etymology 2

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Compare Corsican scornu (corner), Old French corn (corner).

Noun

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scornu m (plural scorni)

  1. (woodworking) each of the two round most external sections of a trunk when cut longitudinally, from which tables are often made (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
    In full: scornu di la tàvula

References

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  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “scornu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 3725
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “scornu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 4, page 403
  • Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “scornu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 772