cornu
See also: čornu
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin cornū (“horn”). Doublet of corn and corno.
Noun
editcornu (plural cornua)
- A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
- A brass instrument from Ancient Rome about 3 metres long in the shape of a letter 'G'.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editReferences
edit- “cornu”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Aromanian
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Latin cornū. Cognate with Romanian corn.
Noun
editcornu n (plural coarni/coarne)
Related terms
editEtymology 2
editInherited from Latin cornus. Cognate with Romanian corn.
Noun
editcornu n (plural cornji)
Related terms
editFala
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcornu m (plural cornus)
- (Mañegu, Valverdeñu) horn
References
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Latin cornūtus.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcornu (feminine cornue, masculine plural cornus, feminine plural cornues)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “cornu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Italic *kornū. Cognate with English horn, hirn; Ancient Greek κρᾱνίον (krāníon, “skull”), κέρας (kéras, “horn”); Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛ́ṅga, “horn, tusk”). See also cerebrum (“brain”), cervus (“deer”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkor.nuː/, [ˈkɔrnuː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkor.nu/, [ˈkɔrnu]
Noun
editcornū n (genitive cornūs); fourth declension
- horn, antler
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.189–190:
- ductōrēsque ipsōs prīmum, capita alta ferentēs
cornibus arboreīs, sternit- And first the leaders themselves, bearing their heads high with branching antlers, [Aeneas] strikes down.
(Demonstrating his military skill, Aeneas first targets the “leaders” – in this case, three stags.)
- And first the leaders themselves, bearing their heads high with branching antlers, [Aeneas] strikes down.
- ductōrēsque ipsōs prīmum, capita alta ferentēs
- tusk
- the horns of the moon
- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.10–14:
- Nūllus adhūc mundō praebēbat lūmina Tītān,
nec nova crēscendō reparābat cornua Phoebē,
nec circumfūsō pendēbat in āere tellūs
ponderibus lībrāta suīs, nec bracchia longō
margine terrārum porrēxerat Amphītrītē; […]- No Titan [Sun] as yet provided light to the world, nor did Phoebe [the Moon] repair new horns in waxing, nor did the Earth hang in the surrounding air, balanced by its own weights, nor had Amphitrite [the sea] stretched her arms down the far borders of the lands; […]
- Nūllus adhūc mundō praebēbat lūmina Tītān,
- arm or wing (of an army)
- Synonym: latus
- bow
- (music) horn (as a musical instrument)
- any substance like the material of a horn, such as the beak or bill of a bird
- the end of a book or scroll, usually made of ivory
- (figuratively) power, strength, might
Declension
editFourth-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cornū | cornua |
Genitive | cornūs | cornuum |
Dative | cornū | cornibus |
Accusative | cornū | cornua |
Ablative | cornū | cornibus |
Vocative | cornū | cornua |
Note: The genitive singular is also cornū in later times.
Quotations
edit- Vegetius Renatus, artis veterinariae sive mulomedicinae libri. In: Scriptores rei rusticae ex recensione Io. Gottlob Schneider cum notis. Tomus quintus, Augusta Taurinorum, 1830, p. 72 (lib. I, cap. 20) and 369 (lib. VI, cap. 10):
- [...] salis cappadocis uncias 3, cornu cervini, lapidis gagatis masculi, lapidis gagatis foeminae, ana uncias 3, [...]
- [...] addisque cornu cervini unciam, sinopidis Pontici pastillos tres, opopanacis semiunciam, [...]
- Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Evangelium seccundum Lucam 1,69:
- et ērēxit cornū salūtis nōbīs in domō Dāvīd puerī suī
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Aromanian: cornu
- Asturian: cuernu
- Catalan: corn
- Dalmatian: cuarno
- English: cornet, corn, -corn
- Esperanto: korno
- Franco-Provençal: côrna
- French: cor, corne
- Friulian: cuar
- Galician: corno
- Ido: korno
- → Irish: corn
- Istriot: cuorno
- Italian: corno
- Old French: corn, corne
- Portuguese: corno
- Romanian: corn
- Romansch: corn, corna
- Sardinian: corru
- Sicilian: cornu
- Spanish: cuerno
- Venetian: corno
- → Welsh: corn
- Occitan: còrn
References
edit- “cornu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cornu”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cornu in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cornu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cornu”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cornu”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Further reading
edit- Wörterbuch der Lateinischen Sprache, nach historisch-genetischen Principien, mit steter Berücksichtigung der Grammatik, Synonymik und Alterthumskunde, bearbeitet von Dr. Wilhelm Freund. Nebst mehreren Beilagen linguistischen und archäologischen Inhalts. Erster Band. A–C, Leipzig, 1834, p. LXVII–LXXXVIII „III. Ueber den genit. sing. der Wörter cornu, gelu, genu etc.“
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