cornute

[ kawr-noot, -nyoot ]

verb (used with object)

, cor·nut·ed, cor·nut·ing.

1. Archaic. to cuckold.

adjective

1. cornuted.

cornute

/ kɔːˈnjuːt /

adjective

1. biology having or resembling cornua; hornlike

   the cornute process of a bone

Word History and Origins

Origin of cornute¹

1590–1600; < Latin cornūtus horned, equivalent to cornū horn + -tus adj. suffix

Word History and Origins

Origin of cornute¹

C17: from Latin cornūtus horned, from cornū horn

Example Sentences

Plunder and fraud, picking and stealing, are courses from which some natures can only be restrained by the piety which firmly believes in the personality, cornute and caudal, of Milton's hero.

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Cornute, horned; bearing a horn-like projection or appendage.

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This peace and quietness is owing to my management, for there would otherwise be continual jars, and broils, and mad doings, if want of wit only did not at the same time make a contented cuckold and a still house; if the cuckoo sing at the back door, the unthinking cornute takes no notice of the unlucky omen of others' eggs being laid in his own nest, but laughs it over, kisses his dear spouse, and all is well.

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Illius puro destillent tempora nardo, 8 Atque satur libo sit madeatque mero, Adnuat et, Cornute, tibi quodcumque rogabis.

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Teneros tu suscipis annos Socratico, Cornute, sinu; tum fallere sollers Apposita intortos extendit regula mores, Et premitur ratione animus vincique laborat 40 Artificemque tuo ducit sub pollice vultum.

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