horned

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔː(ɹ)nd/, (adjective also) /ˈhɔː(ɹ)nɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nd, -ɔː(ɹ)nɪd

From Middle English horned, hornyd, from Old English hyrned, ġehyrned (“having horns; horned”), from Proto-Germanic *hurnidaz (“horned”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *hurnijaną (“to horn; provide or fit with horns”); equivalent to horn (“noun”) +‎ -ed. Cognate with Dutch gehoornd (“horned”), German gehörnt (“horned”), Danish hornede (“horned”).

horned (not comparable)

1. Having horns.

   A goat is a horned animal.

   a bull's head gules, horned argent

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

     The horned moon with one bright star / Within the nether tip.

2. (obsolete) Cuckolded.

This is used in heraldry to specify the color of horns that are distinct in color from the body.

• cornigerous

• horny
• cuckold

• “horned”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “horned”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

See horn (verb).

horned

1. simple past and past participle of horn

• -hedron, Dohner, Horden, Rhoden, dehorn

• hornyd
• (rare) orned, hornd

From horn +‎ -ed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔrnid/, /ˈhɔrnɛd/
• (rare) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔrnd/

horned

1. Possessing horns or a similar projection; horned or horn-bearing.
2. (rare) Having headwear and hair done with projections like horns.
3. (rare, of the moon) In its crescent phase; waxing or waning.
4. (rare) Hornen; crafted or manufactured from horn.

• English: horned
• Scots: hornit, hornt
• ⇒ Yola: hoornta, hornta

• “horned, adj. & ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-08.