English
cornetto
Cornetto comes from Italian cornetto ‘horn-shaped amulet resembling a hot pepper’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱerh₂-‘horn’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱorh₂ureconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kornū‘horn’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcornū‘horn’
- Italianc. 1300–presentcorno‘horn’
- Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentcornetto‘horn-shaped amulet resembling a hot pepper’diminutive of corno
- Englishearliest quotation 2004cornetto
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱerh₂-‘horn’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱorh₂ureconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kornū‘horn’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcornū‘horn’
- Italianc. 1300–presentcorno‘horn’
- Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentcornetto‘horn-shaped amulet resembling a hot pepper’diminutive of corno
- Englishearliest quotation 2004cornetto
Earliest quotation: 2004, Alexandra Potter, Calling Romeo: “Frock-coated waiters flitted in and out dispensing champagne cocktails,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- ‘horn’
cheer, hart, horn, cerebral, crater, grail, migraine, carotid, procrastinate, cerebellum, cairn, cranium, keratin, cerebrum, rother, 53 more
through Latin cornū ‘horn’
Today it means
noun A trumpet-like wind instrument used in European music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- / cornetto