English
cornicle
Cornicle comes from Latin corniculum ‘diminutive of cornū: A little horn’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcorniculum‘diminutive of cornū: A little horn’
- Englishtodaycornicle
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcorniculum‘diminutive of cornū: A little horn’
- Englishtodaycornicle
Equivalent to cornū + -i- + -cule
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- ‘horn’
cheer, hart, horn, cerebral, crater, grail, migraine, carotid, procrastinate, cerebellum, cairn, keratin, cranium, cerebrum, rother, 50 more
through Proto-Italic *kornū ‘horn’
through Latin cornū ‘horn’
Today it means
noun A little horn.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin corniculum / cornicle