cornu

See also: čornu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cornū (“horn”). Doublet of corn and corno.

Noun

cornu (plural cornua)

1. A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
2. A brass instrument from Ancient Rome about 3 metres long in the shape of a letter 'G'.

Derived terms

• postcornu

 

Related terms

• cornu ammonis

 

References

• “cornu”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Aromanian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cornū. Cognate with Romanian corn.

Noun

cornu n (plural coarni/coarne)

1. horn

Related terms

• curnut

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin cornus. Cognate with Romanian corn.

Noun

cornu n (plural cornji)

1. cornel, European cornel, Cornus mas

Related terms

• coarnã

Fala

Alternative forms

• colnu (Lagarteiru)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cornū.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾnu/
• Rhymes: -oɾnu
• Syllabification: cor‧nu

Noun

cornu m (plural cornus)

1. (Mañegu, Valverdeñu) horn

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cornūtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.ny/

• Audio:

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Adjective

cornu (feminine cornue, masculine plural cornus, feminine plural cornues)

1. horned

Related terms

• cor

Further reading

• “cornu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

cornua caprī (horns of a goat)

Etymology

Inherited 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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.nuː/, [ˈkɔrnuː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.nu/, [ˈkɔrnu]

Noun

cornū n (genitive cornūs); fourth declension

1. 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.)

2. tusk
3. 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; […]

4. arm or wing (of an army)

   Synonym: latus

5. bow
6. (music) horn (as a musical instrument)
7. any substance like the material of a horn, such as the beak or bill of a bird
8. the end of a book or scroll, usually made of ivory
9. (figuratively) power, strength, might

Declension

Fourth-declension noun (neuter).

	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

• 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

• corneolus
• cornēscō
• corneus
• cornicen
• corniculāns
• corniculātus
• corniculum
• cornifer
• cornifrōns
• corniger
• cornipēs
• cornuālis
• cornuārius
• cornuātus
• cornūcōpia
• cornulum
• cornupeta
• cornūtus
• ūnicornis

 

Descendants

• 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
• Venetan: corno
• → Welsh: corn
• Occitan: còrn

References

• “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

• 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.“