corno

From Italian corno, from Latin cornu (“horn”). Doublet of corn and cornu.

corno (plural corni)

1. (music) French horn

• corno di bassetto

• Conor, Norco, croon, r'coon

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkɔr.nu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈkɔr.no]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈkɔɾ.no]

corno

1. first-person singular present indicative of cornar

From Old Galician-Portuguese corno, from Latin cornu (“horn”). Cognate with Portuguese corno and Spanish cuerno.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔɾnʊ]

corno m (plural cornos)

1. (countable and uncountable) horn
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana., A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 378:

     Et os hũus tãgíã cornos et os outros pipas, et os que estauã perlos muros da vila, algũus deles deostauã et dezíã moyto mal aos de fora.

     And some were playing horns and others pipes, and of the ones that were by the walls of the town, some insulted and told many mean things to the ones outside

   • 1813, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Rogos de un escolar gallego:

     Sobre un tapiz dua mesa
     mais louro do que é o carbon
     hay procesos, e un tinteiro
     feito de corno de boy.

     Over the cloth of a table,
     blacker than coal,
     there are lawsuits and an inkwell
     made with ox horn

2. horn (wind instrument)
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 136:

     Et moy rregeo tãgeo o corno que pero que era de marfil que o fendeu cõ o bafo, et al quebrantouselle as veas do pescoço et os nerueos

     And very strongly he blew the horn, but since it was made of ivory he broke it with the puff, and also he broke the veins of the neck and the nerves

3. cuckoopint (Arum italicum)
4. European rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes nasicornis)

corno

1. rats!

• “corno” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “corno” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “corno” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “corno” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “corno” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin cornū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔr.no/
• Rhymes: -ɔrno
• Hyphenation: còr‧no

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corno m (plural (in all meanings) corni m or (alternatively when referring to animals) corna f)

1. (zoology) horn, antler (of an animal)

   le corna della capra ― goat's horns

2. (music) horn

   i corni da caccia ― hunting horns

3. (geography) horn (peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land)

   il Corno d'Africa ― horn of Africa

4. horn (material, or object made of material)
5. a horn-shaped amulet worn to ward off evil

• The feminine plural corna is used only in the zoological meaning of the term as an alternative form of corni.

  corni di pecora (“goat's horns”)

  corna di pecora (“goat's horns”)

• For other meanings use the masculine plural corni.

  corni francesi (“French horns”)

  corni inglesi (“cors anglais; English horns”)

• → Japanese: コルナ (koruna)
• → Turkish: korna

• -crono, Crono, Ronco, crono, crono-, ronco

cornō

1. dative/ablative singular of cornus

From Latin cornū, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”).

corno m (plural cornos, metaphonic)

1. horn (growth on the heads of certain animals)

   Synonyms: haste, chifre

2. (vulgar) cuckold

   Synonyms: cornudo, chifrudo

Borrowed from Latin cornus.

corno m (plural cornos)

1. cornel, dogwood

corno

1. first-person singular present indicative of cornar

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾno/ [ˈkoɾ.no]
• Rhymes: -oɾno
• Syllabification: cor‧no

Borrowed from Latin cornū. Doublet of cuerno.

corno m (plural cornos)

1. horn (musical instrument)

Borrowed from Latin cornus.

corno m (plural cornos)

1. cornel

• “corno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014