different between cornet vs coronet

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

Etymology

From Middle French couronnette, from Old French coronete, diminutive of corone (“crown”), from Latin corona.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

coronet (plural coronets)

1. A small crown, such as is worn by a noble.
2. The ring of tissue between a horse's hoof and its leg.
3. The traditional lowest regular commissioned officer rank in the cavalry.
4. Any of several hummingbirds in the genus Boissonneaua.
5. A species of moth, Craniophora ligustri.

Synonyms

(junior commissioned officer):

• ensign (infantry equivalent of the cavalry coronet)
• second lieutenant (OF-1), first NATO commissioned officer grade above OF-0 trainee officer

Translations

Anagrams

• Crotone

Latin

Verb

cor?net

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of cor?n?