cornu

Latin cornu (“horn”)

cornu (plural cornua)

1. A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.

• cornu ammonis

From Latin cornu. Compare Romanian corn.

cornu n (plural coarni/coarne)

1. horn

• curnut

From Latin cornus. Compare Romanian corn.

cornu n (plural cornji)

1. cornel, European cornel, Cornus mas

• coarnã

From Latin cornūtus.

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.ny/

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

1. horned

• cor

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

From Proto-Italic *kornū, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂u, *ḱr̥h₂-no-, both from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).

Cognate with English horn, hirn; Ancient Greek κρᾱνίον (krāníon, “skull”), κέρας (kéras, “horn”); Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅgá, “horn, tusk”). See also cerebrum (“brain”), cervus (“deer”).

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

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cornū n (genitive cornūs); fourth declension

1. a 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. a tusk
3. the horns of the moon
4. an arm or wing of an army

   Synonym: latus

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

Fourth-declension noun (neuter).

Note: The genitive singular is also cornū in later times.

• 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, [...]

• Vulgata Latina Sancti Hieronymi, Evangelium Seccundum Lucam 1,69:

  et ērēxit cornū salūtis nōbīs in domō Dāvīd puerī suī, [...]

• “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

• 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.“