cornet
See also: Cornet
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /kɔɹˈnɛt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɔːnɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nɪt
Audio (UK) (file)
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English cornet, from Old French cornet, a diminutive of a popular reflex of Latin cornū (“horn”).
Noun edit
cornet (plural cornets)
- A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
- Synonyms: cornet-à-piston, cornet-à-pistons
- A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
- A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.
- (obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
- 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:
- They discerned a body of five cornets of horse very full, standing in very good order to receive them.
- A kind of organ stop.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
musical instrument
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piece of paper twisted to make a container
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pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle French cornette, diminutive of corne, from Latin cornua (“horns”).
Noun edit
cornet (plural cornets)
- The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.
- (obsolete) The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
- (historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).
- 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 45:
- No general would have sent a mere cornet in command of five hundred horse: Fairfax despatched a colonel to take charge as soon as he heard what had happened.
- 1999, Mike Mitchell, translating HJC von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, III.14, Dedalus 2016, p. 253:
- This cornet [translating Cornet] was a brave young cavalier and not more than two years older than me.
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French edit
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Noun edit
cornet m (plural cornets)
- (paper) cone
- (pastry) horn; (ice-cream) cone
- post horn
- 2000, Jean-François Parot, L'énigme des Blancs-Manteaux, JC Lattès, published 2012, page 17:
- Il tenait à la main gauche un cornet semblable à celui dont usaient les postillons ; en cas de péril, l’alarme serait donnée au patron qui tenait la barre à l’arrière.
- In his left hand he held a horn like those used by post riders; in case of danger, the alarm would be given to the owner who was at the forward rail.
- (music) cornet; cornet stop (on organ)
- portable inkhorn
- (Switzerland) plastic bag
- ear trumpet
Descendants edit
See also edit
References edit
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
Further reading edit
- “cornet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French cornet; equivalent to corne (“callus”) + -et.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cornet (plural cornettes)
Descendants edit
- English: cornet
References edit
- “cornet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cornet n (plural corneturi)
Declension edit
Declension of cornet
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) cornet | cornetul | (niște) corneturi | corneturile |
genitive/dative | (unui) cornet | cornetului | (unor) corneturi | corneturilor |
vocative | cornetule | corneturilor |