Wiktionary

licorne

English

edit
 
Quarter-pood licorne of 1805

Etymology

edit

From French licorne, calque of Russian единоро́г (jedinoróg, “unicorn”).

Noun

edit

licorne (plural licornes)

  1. (historical, military) A type of muzzle-loading gun-howitzer used by the Russian Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries.
    • 1824, “Answers of Sir A. D., K. C. B. of the Royal Artillery, to some questions from Lieutenant C. D. Bengal Artillery”, in The British Indian Military Repository, volume 3:
      But I think our new 24-pounder howitzer will be found superior to any of them, not even excepting the Russian Licorne.
    • 1837, T. F. Simmons, Ideas as to the Effect of Heavy Ordnance Directed Against and Applied by Ships of War, etc.:
      The Russians have a howitzer denominated licorne, the bore of which is, in its whole extent, the truncated frustrum of a cone: the only field guns in the possession of the artillery at Corfu, in 1822, were Russian guns of this description.
    • 2007, Jeff Kinard, “Eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century artillery”, in Artillery: An Illustrated History of Its Impact:
      Essentially a hybrid between a howitzer and a gun, thus a gun-howitzer, the licorne was capable of a flatter trajectory and a longer range than the conventional howitzer.

Translations

edit

Further reading

edit

French

edit

Etymology

edit

From Old French unicorne via reanalysis as une icorne (with indefinite article), followed by further reanalysis of the new definite form l'icorne,[1] or from Italian alicorno, variant of liocorno.[2]

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /li.kɔʁn/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

edit

licorne f (plural licornes)

  1. (mythology) unicorn
  2. (heraldry) unicorn
  3. (finance) unicorn (startup whose valuation has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars)

References

edit
  1. ^ Ti Alkire, Carol Rosen (2010) Romance Languages: A Historical Introduction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 305
  2. ^ Etymology and history of “licorne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Further reading

edit

Portuguese

edit

Etymology

edit

Borrowed from French licorne.[1][2]

Pronunciation

edit
 

  • Hyphenation: li‧cor‧ne

Noun

edit

licorne m (plural licornes)

  1. unicorn
    Synonym: unicórnio

References

edit
  1. ^ “licorne” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  2. ^ “licorne” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=licorne&oldid=79905662"