corne

See also: corné and čorne

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French corne, from Vulgar Latin *corna (taken as a feminine singular), from Classical Latin cornua, plural of cornū (whence cor).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʁn

Noun

corne f (plural cornes)

1. (countable) horn
2. (uncountable) corn (callus)

Derived terms

• avoir des cornes
• bête à cornes
• corné
• corne à boire
• corne de brume
• Corne de l’Afrique
• corne d’abondance
• cornée
• corner
• cornet
• cornichon
• cornu
• prendre le taureau par les cornes

 

Further reading

• “corne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• ronce

Latin

Noun

corne

1. vocative singular of cornus

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French corne, corn; from Latin cornū.

Alternative forms

• corn, coorne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔrn/, /koːrn/

Noun

corne (plural cornes)

1. (rare) callus

Descendants

• English: corn

References

• “cō̆rne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.

Etymology 2

Noun

corne

1. Alternative form of corn (“grain”)

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *corna (taken as a feminine singular), from Classical Latin cornua, plural of cornū.

Noun

corne oblique singular, f (oblique plural cornes, nominative singular corne, nominative plural cornes)

1. Alternative form of corn m (“horn”)

Descendants

• French: corne

Portuguese

Verb

corne

1. inflection of cornar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative