cornute

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kɔːˈnjuːt/

Verb

cornute (third-person singular simple present cornutes, present participle cornuting, simple past and past participle cornuted)

  1. (transitive) To give 'horns' to; to make a cuckold of.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 357:
      ‘Will you cooperate with me in cornuting your husband? It's a must!

Adjective

cornute (comparative more cornute, superlative most cornute)

  1. Bearing horns or shaped like a horn; cornuted.

Noun

cornute (plural cornutes)

  1. A member of the order Cornuta.
    • 1997 October, R[onald] L. Parsley, “The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: non Calcichordata”, in The Paleontological Society Papers, volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 225:
      Stylophorans are divided into two orders the Cornuta and Ankyroida: cornutes have asymmetrical thecae, aulacophores with stylocones and cover plates over the food groove that open widely; ankyroids have essentially bilaterally symmetrical thecae, aulacophores with styloids and in most the cover plates do not open widely.

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Italian

Adjective

cornute

  1. feminine plural of cornuto

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Latin

Adjective

cornūte

  1. vocative masculine singular of cornūtus
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