bicornis

Latin

From bi- +‎ cornū +‎ -is.

bicornis (neuter bicorne); third-declension two-termination adjective

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter	Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Number	Singular		Plural
Nominative	bicornis	bicorne	bicornēs	bicornia
Genitive	bicornis		bicornium
Dative	bicornī		bicornibus
Accusative	bicornem	bicorne	bicornēs bicornīs	bicornia
Ablative	bicornī		bicornibus
Vocative	bicornis	bicorne	bicornēs	bicornia

→ Arabic: بقرنية buqurnīya (Al-Andalus, Morocco, Algeria)
Old Catalan: bigorna
→ English: bicorn
Old French: bigorne
- Middle French: bigorne
  - → English: bickern
  - French: bigorne
Occitan: bigorna (modern)
Portuguese: bigorna
Vulgar Latin: *bicornia
- Old Catalan: bigòrnia
  - Catalan: bigòrnia
- Old French: bigorgne
- Galician: bigornia
- Italian: bicornia (not attested until 17th c. (see Coromines & Pascual), borrowing?)
- Old Spanish: bicornia, bigornia
  - Spanish: bigornia

Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “bigornia”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 583
“bicornis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“bicornis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
bicornis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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