cornulum

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 *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulum

Latin cornulum

From cornū (“horn”) + -ulum (diminutive-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔr.nʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔr.nu.lum]

Noun

cornulum n (genitive cornulī); second declension

1. A little horn.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	cornulum	cornula
genitive	cornulī	cornulōrum
dative	cornulō	cornulīs
accusative	cornulum	cornula
ablative	cornulō	cornulīs
vocative	cornulum	cornula

Synonyms

• (little horn): corniculum

Related terms

• corneolus
• cornēscō
• corneus
• cornicen
• corniculāns
• corniculātus
• corniculum
• cornifer
• corniger
• cornipēs
• cornū
• cornuālis
• cornuārius
• cornuātus
• cornūcōpia
• cornupeta
• cornūtus
• ūnicornis

References

• “cornulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cornulum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.