different between cuckold vs cornuto

English

Etymology

From Middle English cokolde, cokewold, cockewold, kukwald, kukeweld, from Old French cucuault; a compound of cucu (“cuckoo”) (some varieties of the cuckoo bird lay their eggs in another’s nest) and Old French -auld. Cucu is either a directly derived onomatopoeic derivative of the cuckoo's call, or from Latin cuc?lus. Latin cuc?lus is a compound of onomatopoeic cucu (compare Late Latin cucus) and the diminutive suffix -ulus. -auld is from Frankish *-wald (similar suffixes are used in some personal names within other Germanic languages as well; confer English Harold, for instance), a suffixal use of Frankish *wald (“power, mastery, dominion”), from Proto-Germanic *wald? (“might, power, authority”) (compare German Gewalt), from *waldan? (“to rule”), from Proto-Indo-European *wal- (“to be strong”). Appears in Middle English in noun form circa 1250 as cokewald. First known use of the verb form is 1589.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??ld
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?.k??ld/, /?k?.k?ld/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?.ko?ld/, /?k?.k?ld/

Noun

cuckold (plural cuckolds)

1. A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.

   Synonyms: cornuto, cuck; see also Thesaurus:cuckold

   Coordinate terms: cuckquean; see also Thesaurus:cuckquean

   • 1546, François Rabelais, The Third Book, Chapter 36

     If I never marry, I shall never be a cuckold.

   • 2001, Goran V. Stanivukovic, Ovid and the Renaissance Body, page 178:

     In the early English drama, no play better approximates Ovid's contemptuous portrait of the willing cuckold than does Thomas Middleton's Chaste Maid in Cheapside (ca. 1612).

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:cuckold.
2. (fetishism) A man who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
3. A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus triqueter.
4. The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.

Synonyms

• (Rhinesomus triqueter): Ostracion triqueter, smooth trunkfish

Derived terms

• cuck
• cuckolder
• cuckoldress
• cuckoldry

Related terms

• bull
• horner (“one who cuckolds”); see also Thesaurus:cuckolder
• stag
• vixen
• cuckquean
• wittol

Translations

Verb

cuckold (third-person singular simple present cuckolds, present participle cuckolding, simple past and past participle cuckolded)

1. (transitive) To make a cuckold or cuckquean of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing their partner or spouse.

   Synonyms: cuck, horn, hornify; see also Thesaurus:cuckoldize

   • 2008, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content 1319: The Flimsiest of Logic

     Hey, I would never cuckold one of my friends. That’s way not cool.

Translations

Further reading

• cuckold on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• smooth trunkfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• scrawled cowfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cornuto, from Latin corn?tus (“horned”).

Noun

cornuto (plural cornutos or cornutoes)

1. (obsolete) A cuckold.

Anagrams

• contour, countor, crouton, croûton

Italian

Etymology

From Latin corn?tus.

Adjective

cornuto (feminine cornuta, masculine plural cornuti, feminine plural cornute)

1. horned

Noun

cornuto m (plural cornuti)

1. cuckold

Derived terms

• cornuto contento
• il bue che dice cornuto all'asino

Anagrams

• coturno

Latin

Adjective

corn?t?

1. dative masculine singular of corn?tus
2. dative neuter singular of corn?tus
3. ablative masculine singular of corn?tus
4. ablative neuter singular of corn?tus