scornu

Corsican

Etymology 1

Compare Old French corn (“corner, secluded place”).

Noun

scornu m (plural scorni)

1. (secluded) place, corner, nook
   • 1984, A Filetta (lyrics and music), “U mare è u fiume”, in Cuntè:

     Quandu in un scornu hè notte, // in l'altru u sole sorte.

     When in a place it is night, in another the Sun rises.

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin *excornum.

Noun

scornu m (uncountable)

1. shame, humiliation

Further reading

• “scornu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Sicilian

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *excornum.

Noun

scornu m (uncountable)

1. shame, humiliation
   • 1785 – 1787, Giovanni Meli, Don Chisciotti e Sanciu Panza 12.54:

     A scornu nostru rignirà indefessu / l'omu dunqui, chi pensa, e chi ragiuna?

     Will then a man who thinks and reasons reign tirelessly to our shame?

Etymology 2

Compare Corsican scornu (“corner”), Old French corn (“corner”).

Noun

scornu m (plural scorni)

1. (woodworking) each of the two round most external sections of a trunk when cut longitudinally, from which tables are often made (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

   In full: scornu di la tàvula

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “scornu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 3725
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “scornu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 4, page 403
• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “scornu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 772