English
cornuate
Cornuate comes from Latin cornuātus ‘horn-shaped’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱerh₂-1‘horn’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱorh₂u1reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kornū2‘horn’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcornū3‘horn’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcornuātus3‘horn-shaped’
- Englishearliest quotation 1863cornuate3
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Proto-Italic *kornū
- 2 Wiktionary, Latin cornu
- 3 Wiktionary, English cornuate
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1863, Thomas Henry Huxley, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature: “[…] that in the higher apes, Troglodytes, Pithecus, the…”.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱerh₂-Wiktionary, Proto-Italic *kornū‘horn’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱorh₂uWiktionary, Proto-Italic *kornūreconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kornūWiktionary, Latin cornu‘horn’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcornūWiktionary, English cornuate‘horn’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcornuātusWiktionary, English cornuate‘horn-shaped’
- Englishearliest quotation 1863cornuateWiktionary, English cornuate. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1863, Thomas Henry Huxley, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature: “[…] that in the higher apes, Troglodytes, Pithecus, the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- ‘horn’
cheer, hart, horn, cerebral, grail, migraine, crater, carotid, cerebellum, cairn, cranium, procrastinate, keratin, cerebrum, rother, 50 more
through Proto-Italic *kornū ‘horn’
through Latin cornū ‘horn’
Today it means
adj Horn-shaped, as with a bicornuate uterus.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- / cornuate