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cornet
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)
- 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
- A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
- A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (Britain, dated) an ice cream cone.
- (obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
- 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)
- The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.
- (obsolete) The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
- (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.
- 1999, Mike Mitchell, translating HJC von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, III.14, Dedalus 2016, p. 253:
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)
- (paper) cone
- (pastry) horn; (ice-cream) cone
- 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.
- 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.
- 2000, Jean-François Parot, L'énigme des Blancs-Manteaux, JC Lattès 2012, p. 17:
- (music) cornet; cornet stop (on organ)
- portable inkhorn
- (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)
- A cornet (musical instrument).
- (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)
- cornel grove
Declension
cornet From the web:
horn
English
Etymology
From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurn? (compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic ???????????????????? (haurn)), from Proto-Indo-European *?r?h?-nó-m, from *?erh?- (“head, horn”).
Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin corn?, Ancient Greek ????? (kéras), Proto-Slavic *s?rna, Old Church Slavonic ????? (s?rna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”)[script needed], Persian ???? (sur), Sanskrit ????? (???ga, “horn”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hôn, IPA(key): /h??n/
- (US) enPR: hôrn, IPA(key): /h??n/
- Rhymes: -??(r)n
Noun
horn (countable and uncountable, plural horns)
- (countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
- Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
- An antler.
- (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
- Synonym: keratin
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
- 1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason.
- The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
- (architecture) The Ionic volute.
- (nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
- (carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
- One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
- 1775, William Mason, The Poems of Mr. Gray. To which are prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason.
- (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
- (countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
- (countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
- Synonyms: hooter, klaxon
- (chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
- The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.
- (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
- Synonym: funnel
- (informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
- (slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.
- Synonyms: blower (UK), dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang), phone
- (uncountable, vulgar, slang, definite article) An erection of the penis.
- Synonyms: boner (US), hard-on, stiffy
- (countable, geography) A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
- Synonym: peninsula
- (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ? and ?.
- (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
Usage notes
When used alone to refer to an instrument, horn can mean either hunting horn or French horn, depending on context. Other instruments are identified by specific adjectives such as English horn or basset horn.
Translations
Verb
horn (third-person singular simple present horns, present participle horning, simple past and past participle horned)
- (transitive, of an animal) To assault with the horns.
- (transitive) To furnish with horns.
- (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cuckold.
Derived terms
Anagrams
- NRHO, Rohn
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ????? (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er-.
Noun
horn n (singular definite hornet, plural indefinite horn)
- horn
Inflection
References
- “horn” in Den Danske Ordbog
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ????? (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?tn/
- Rhymes: -?tn
Noun
horn n (genitive singular horns, plural horn)
- horn (of an animal)
- (music) horn
- corner
- speaker (on a telephone)
- angle
Declension
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ????? (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?rtn/
- Rhymes: -?rtn
Noun
horn n (genitive singular horns, nominative plural horn)
- horn (of an animal)
- fin (of a cetacean or other marine animal)
- corner
- angle
- (music) horn
Declension
Derived terms
Middle English
Alternative forms
- horne, orn
Etymology
From Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?r?h?nós (with change in gender).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h?rn/
Noun
horn (plural hornes)
- A horn (keratinous growth on one's head):
- A horn or a similar growth in fantasy, religion, or mythology.
- Such keratinous growths used as a material or in crafts.
- (rare) The metaphorical horn of one who performs cuckoldry.
- (rare, heraldry) A heraldic depiction of a horn.
- A jutting or projecting extremity of something, especially one resembling a horn:
- One of the two points of a moon that is less than half waxed.
- One of the two points of a women's hairstyle involving projecting points.
- (rare, anatomy) A horn-shaped bodily passage or chamber.
- A horn (gently curved musical instrument)
- Any other hard bodily extension in humans or beasts (e.g. a claw)
- A horn-shaped container, especially one used like a glass.
- (rare) A half or section of an army, troop, or band.
- (rare) The eyestalk of a gastropod or an analogous projection.
- (rare) Bovids which are horned as a collective.
Related terms
- horned
- hornen
- hornepipe
- horner
- hornyng
- ynkhorn
Descendants
- English: horn
- Scots: horn
- Yola: hoorn
References
- “horn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-08.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ????? (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er-.
Noun
horn n (definite singular hornet, indefinite plural horn, definite plural horna or hornene)
- (zoology) horn
- (music) horn
- (automotive, rail transport) horn (warning device)
Derived terms
- hornhinne
- krutthorn
- ta tyren ved hornene
References
- “horn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ????? (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?rn/, /h?rn/
Noun
horn n (definite singular hornet, indefinite plural horn, definite plural horna)
- (zoology) horn
- (music) horn
- (automotive, rail transport) horn (warning device)
Derived terms
- hornhinne
- ta tyren ved horna
References
- “horn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er- (“horn, head, top”).
Compare Old Frisian horn (West Frisian hoarn), Old Saxon horn (Low German Hoorn, horn), Dutch hoorn, Old High German horn (German Horn), Old Norse horn (Danish and Swedish horn), Gothic ???????????????????? (haurn).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xorn/, [hor?n]
Noun
horn m (nominative plural hornas)
- horn
- (horn-shaped) gable
Declension
Derived terms
- hornb?re
- hornre?ed
Descendants
- Middle English: horn, horne
- English: horn
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er-.
Cognates include also Old Saxon horn, Old English horn, Old Norse horn, Gothic ???????????????????? (haurn).
Noun
horn n
- horn
Descendants
- German: Horn
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Norse ????? (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er- or Proto-Indo-European *?erh?-. Cognates include Old English horn (English horn, Old Frisian horn (West Frisian hoarn), Old Saxon horn (Low German Hoorn, horn), Dutch hoorn, Old High German horn (German Horn), Gothic ???????????????????? (haurn).
Noun
horn n (genitive horns, plural horn)
- horn (of an animal)
- horn (to drink from)
- horn (musical instrument)
- corner
- angle
Declension
Descendants
- Danish: horn n
- Faroese: horn n
- Icelandic: horn n
- Norwegian: horn n
- Swedish: horn n
References
- horn in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?er-.
Cognates include also Old English horn, Old Frisian horn, Old High German horn, Old Norse horn, Gothic ???????????????????? (haurn).
Noun
horn n
- horn
Descendants
- Low German: Hoorn, horn
Romanian
Noun
horn n (plural hornuri)
- chimney
- Synonyms: c?min, co?, fumar
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse horn, from Proto-Norse ????? (horna), from Proto-Germanic *hurn?, from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?-.
Pronunciation
Noun
horn n
- horn (growth on animals' heads)
- horn (object shaped from or like an animal's horn, used for drinking, storage or making sounds)
- horn (object that makes a sound, e.g. on a car)
- (music) horn
Declension
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