cornipes

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

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Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-der.

Proto-Italic *kornū

Latin cornū

Proto-Indo-European *ped-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *pṓds

Proto-Italic *pets

Latin pēs

Latin cornipēs

From cornū (“horn”) + pēs (“foot”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔr.nɪ.peːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔr.ni.pes]

Adjective

cornipēs (genitive cornipedis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. hoofed, having hooves
   • 2 CE, Ovidius, Ars Amatoria 1.280:

     Mollibus in prātīs admūgit fēmina taurō:
     Fēmina cornipedī semper adhinnit equō.

     In soft meadows the female [cow] bellows to the bull; the female [mare] always neighs to the hoofed horse.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	cornipēs			cornipedēs	cornipeda
genitive	cornipedis			cornipedum
dative	cornipedī			cornipedibus
accusative	cornipedem	cornipēs		cornipedīs cornipedēs	cornipeda
ablative	cornipedī cornipede			cornipedibus
vocative	cornipēs			cornipedēs	cornipeda

Noun

cornipēs m (genitive cornipedis); third declension

1. A hoofed animal; an ungulate.
2. (metonymic) a centaur

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cornipēs	cornipedēs
genitive	cornipedis	cornipedum
dative	cornipedī	cornipedibus
accusative	cornipedem	cornipedēs
ablative	cornipede	cornipedibus
vocative	cornipēs	cornipedēs

Related terms

• cornū

References

• “cornipes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cornipes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "cornipes", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cornipes”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.