different between cornet vs bugle

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /k???n?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??n?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English cornet, from Old French cornet, a diminutive of a popular reflex of Latin corn? (“horn”).

Noun

cornet (plural cornets)

1. A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.

   Synonyms: cornet-à-piston, cornet-à-pistons

2. A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
3. A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (Britain, dated) an ice cream cone.
4. (obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
5. A kind of organ stop.

Derived terms

• cornetist

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle French cornette, diminutive of corne, from Latin cornua (“horns”).

Noun

cornet (plural cornets)

1. The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.
2. (obsolete) The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
3. (historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).
   • 1999, Mike Mitchell, translating HJC von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, III.14, Dedalus 2016, p. 253:

     This cornet [transl. Cornet] was a brave young cavalier and not more than two years older than me.

Derived terms

• cornetcy

Translations

Anagrams

• Cotner, centro-, corten, creton, cronet, retcon

French

Etymology

From corne +? -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.n?/

Noun

cornet m (plural cornets)

1. (paper) cone
2. (pastry) horn; (ice-cream) cone
3. post horn
   • 2000, Jean-François Parot, L'énigme des Blancs-Manteaux, JC Lattès 2012, p. 17:

     Il tenait à la main gauche un cornet semblable à celui dont usaient les postillons ; en cas de péril, l'alarme serait donnée au patron qui tenait la barre à l'arrière.

     In his left hand he held a horn like those used by post riders; in case of danger, the alarm would be given to the owner who was at the forward rail.

4. (music) cornet; cornet stop (on organ)
5. portable inkhorn
6. (Switzerland) plastic bag

Descendants

• English: cornet

See also

• cornette

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “cornet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• conter, contre, contré

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cornette

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French cornet; equivalent to corne (“callus”) +? -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?rnit/, /?k?rn?t/

Noun

cornet (plural cornettes)

1. A cornet (musical instrument).
2. (rare) A triangle-shaped slice of bread.

Descendants

• English: cornet

References

• “cornet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.

Romanian

Etymology

corn +? -et

Noun

cornet n (plural corneturi)

1. cornel grove

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bju???l/
• Rhymes: -u???l

Etymology 1

From Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Latin buculus (“young bull; ox; steer”).

Noun

bugle (plural bugles)

1. A horn used by hunters.
2. (music) a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
3. Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
4. The sound of something that bugles.

5. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

Synonyms

• (shaped like a bugle): cone, funnel

Hypernyms

• musical instrument

Derived terms

• bugler

Coordinate terms

• trumpet

Translations

Verb

bugle (third-person singular simple present bugles, present participle bugling, simple past and past participle bugled)

1. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.

Synonyms

• trumpet

Translations

Etymology 2

From Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”).

Noun

bugle (plural bugles)

1. a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
   • 1925, P. G. Wodehouse, Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 207.

     With the exception of a woman in a black silk dress with bugles who, incredible as it may seem, had ordered cocoa and sparkling limado simultaneously and was washing down a meal of Cambridge sausages and pastry with alternate draughts of both liquids, the place was empty.

Translations

Adjective

bugle (comparative more bugle, superlative most bugle)

1. (obsolete) jet-black

Etymology 3

From Middle English bugle (“bugleweed”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Medieval Latin bugilla, probably related to Late Latin bugillo.

Noun

bugle (plural bugles)

1. A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover, Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.

   Synonyms: bugleweed, carpet bugle, ground pine

Translations

Further reading

• Bugle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

bugle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• bulge

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by?l/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bugle, itself from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Latin buculus.

Noun

bugle m (plural bugles)

1. bugle

Etymology 2

From Old French bugle, probably borrowed from Medieval Latin bugula, probably related to Late Latin bugillo (cf. bouillon).

Noun

bugle f (plural bugles)

1. bugle, bugleweed

References

• “bugle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin b?culus (“bullock”).

Noun

bugle m (oblique plural bugles, nominative singular bugles, nominative plural bugle)

1. bugle (type of horn, often used in battle)
   • (Can we date this quote?) Fouke le Fitz Waryn, ed. E. J. Hathaway, P. T. Ricketts, C. A. Robson and A. D. Wilshere, ANTS 26-28 (1975).

     oy un chevaler soner un gros bugle

     (I) hear a knight sounding a large bugle

Descendants

• ? Middle English: bugle (through Anglo-Norman)
  • English: bugle
• French: beugler