horn
English Edit
Etymology Edit
From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną. Compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras), Proto-Slavic *sьrna, Old Church Slavonic сьрна (sĭrna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”), Persian سر (sar), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅga, “horn”).
(telephone): From the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes.
Pronunciation Edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hôn, IPA(key): /hɔːn/
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) enPR: hôrn, IPA(key): /hɔɹn/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (file) - (Dublin English, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ˈhɒːɹn/
- (Dublin English) IPA(key): /ˈhoːrn/, /ˈhoːɻn/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Noun Edit
horn (countable and uncountable, plural horns)
- (countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
- Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- But nowhere are there queerer waters than in our own parish of Caulds, at the place called the Sker Bay, where between two horns of land a shallow estuary receives the stream of the Sker.
- An antler.
- (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
- Synonym: keratin
- an umbrella with a handle made of horn
- A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
- 1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason.:
- horns of mead and ale
- 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 143:
- "I guarantee you a mighty feast, horns of ale, and afterwards wrestling and racing and contests of strength."
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
- 1726, James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 169, lines 123–125:
- [W]hile riſing ſlow, / Blank, in the leaden-colour'd eaſt, the moon / Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns.
- The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
- (architecture) The Ionic volute.
- (nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
- (carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
- One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 2:28:
- Joab […] caught hold on the horns of the altar
- (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
- (countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
- hunting horn
- (countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
- (chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
- The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.
- (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
- Synonym: funnel
- antenna horn
- loudspeaker horn
- (informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
- (slang, countable) A telephone.
- Synonyms: blower (UK), dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang), phone
- Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.
- (uncountable, vulgar, slang, definite article) An erection of the penis.
- (countable, geography) A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
- Synonym: peninsula
- to navigate around the horn
- (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
- (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
- (military) In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
Usage notes Edit
When used alone to refer to an instrument, horn can mean either hunting horn or French horn, depending on context. Other instruments are identified by specific adjectives such as English horn or basset horn.
Translations Edit
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Verb Edit
horn (third-person singular simple present horns, present participle horning, simple past and past participle horned)
- (transitive, of an animal) To assault with the horns.
- (transitive) To furnish with horns.
- (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cuckold.
Derived terms Edit
- acoustic horn
- air horn, airhorn
- Alpine horn
- alto horn
- Ammon's horn
- around the horn
- baritone horn
- basset horn
- bass horn
- bastard horn snake
- Big Horn County
- blowhorn
- blow-horn
- blow horn
- blow one's horn
- blow one's own horn
- buck's-horn
- buck's horn plantain
- bull-horn
- bull horn
- bullhorn
- chemical horn
- chrome horn
- coach horn
- cream horn
- deer horn knife
- drinking-horn
- drinking horn
- English horn
- feed horn
- feed-horn
- fire alarm horn
- fish horn
- fish-horn
- foghorn
- fog-horn
- fog horn
- French horn
- Golden Horn
- grunt-horn
- have the horn
- horn angle
- horn antenna
- hornbag
- hornbeam
- horn-bearing
- hornbill
- hornbook
- horn coral
- horn-dog
- horn dog
- horn drum
- horned
- horner
- hornguide, horn guide
- horn-helmeted
- horn in
- hornist
- hornless
- horn-mad
- horn mercury
- Horn of Africa
- horn of Amalthea
- horn of plenty
- horn pipe
- hornpipe
- horn piper
- horn-piper
- horn-rimmed
- horn-rims
- horns and halo effect
- horn shark
- horn silver
- horn slate
- horn timber
- horn tipper
- horn violin
- horn-violin
- hornworm
- hornwort
- horny
- hunting-horn
- iliac horn syndrome
- lock horns
- obtuse horn shell
- occipital horn syndrome
- off the horn
- on the horn
- on the horns of a dilemma
- party horn
- paste-horn
- Pinard horn
- plenty's horn
- post-horn
- post horn, posthorn
- powder horn
- pull in one's horns
- put to the horn
- ram's horn squid
- saddle horn
- saxhorn
- shoehorn
- shoe-horn
- shoeing-horn
- slug-horn
- snuff-horn
- stag's-horn clubmoss
- switch horn
- take a horn
- take the bull by the horns
- tenor horn
- tin-horn
- toot one's own horn
- uterine horn
- Vienna horn
- Viennese horn
- Vladimir horn
- war horn
- war-horn
Anagrams Edit
Danish Edit
Etymology Edit
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
horn n (singular definite hornet, plural indefinite horn)
Inflection Edit
References Edit
- “horn” in Den Danske Ordbog
Faroese Edit
Etymology Edit
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
horn n (genitive singular horns, plural horn)
Declension Edit
Declension of horn | ||||
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n3 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | horn | hornið | horn | hornini |
accusative | horn | hornið | horn | hornini |
dative | horni | horninum | hornum | hornunum |
genitive | horns | hornsins | horna | hornanna |
Icelandic Edit
Etymology Edit
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
horn n (genitive singular horns, nominative plural horn)
Declension Edit
Derived terms Edit
- hornafleiða
- hornamál
- hornfjarlægð
- horngráða
- hornhraði m (“angular velocity”)
- hornhröðun
- hornmál
Middle English Edit
Alternative forms Edit
Etymology Edit
From Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nós (with change in gender).
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
horn (plural hornes)
- A horn (keratinous growth):
- A projecting extremity or point:
- A horn (musical instrument)
- A bodily extension, such as a claw.
- A horn-shaped container (especially as a glass)
- (rare) A section of an army or band.
- (rare) The eyestalk of a gastropod or an analogous projection.
- (rare, collectively) Horned bovids.
Related terms Edit
Descendants Edit
References Edit
- “horn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-08.
Norwegian Bokmål Edit
Etymology Edit
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
horn n (definite singular hornet, indefinite plural horn, definite plural horna or hornene)
- (zoology) horn
- (music) horn
- (automotive, rail transport) horn (warning device)
Derived terms Edit
References Edit
- “horn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk Edit
Alternative forms Edit
Etymology Edit
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
horn n (definite singular hornet, indefinite plural horn, definite plural horna)
- (zoology) horn
- (music) horn
- (automotive, rail transport) horn (warning device)
Derived terms Edit
References Edit
- “horn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“horn, head, top”).
Cognate with Old Frisian horn, Old Saxon horn, Old High German horn, Old Norse horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
horn m
Declension Edit
Derived terms Edit
Descendants Edit
Old High German Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.
Cognates include also Old Saxon horn, Old English horn, Old Norse horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).
Noun Edit
horn n
Descendants Edit
Old Norse Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- or Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-. Cognates include Old English horn (English horn, Old Frisian horn (West Frisian hoarn), Old Saxon horn (Low German Hoorn, horn), Dutch hoorn, Old High German horn (German Horn), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).
Noun Edit
horn n (genitive horns, plural horn)
Declension Edit
Descendants Edit
- Icelandic: horn
- Faroese: horn
- Norn: honnj
- Norwegian Nynorsk: horn, (dialectal) hønn
- Old Swedish: horn
- Swedish: horn
- Danish: horn
- Norwegian Bokmål: horn
References Edit
- “horn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Saxon Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.
Cognates include also Old English horn, Old Frisian horn, Old High German horn, Old Norse horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn).
Noun Edit
horn n
Declension Edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | horn | horn |
accusative | horn | horn |
genitive | hornes | hornō |
dative | horne | hornun |
instrumental | — | — |
Descendants Edit
Old Swedish Edit
Etymology Edit
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.
Noun Edit
horn n
Declension Edit
Descendants Edit
- Swedish: horn
Romanian Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from Ukrainian горн (horn), from Proto-Slavic *gъrnъ.
Noun Edit
horn n (plural hornuri)
Swedish Edit
Etymology Edit
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.
Pronunciation Edit
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Noun Edit
horn n
- horn (growth on animals' heads)
- horn (object shaped from or like an animal's horn, used for drinking, storage or making sounds)
- horn (object that makes a sound, e.g. on a car)
- (music) horn
Declension Edit
Declension of horn | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | horn | hornet | horn | hornen |
Genitive | horns | hornets | horns | hornens |
Related terms Edit
- bilhorn
- bläckhorn
- bockhorn n (“goat's horn”)
- dryckeshorn
- hornboskap
- hornmusik
- hornprydd
- kruthorn
- valthorn
- ymnighetshorn n (“cornucopia, horn of plenty”)
- älghorn