English

tauricornous

Tauricornous comes from Latin cornu ‘horn’, 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 CEcornu‘horn’
Englishearliest quotation 1646tauricornous

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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 CEcornu‘horn’
Englishearliest quotation 1646tauricornous

Earliest quotation: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: “And if (as Macrobius and very good authors concede)…”

Formed from taurus ‘bull’ + -i-

Ancient Greek Ταῦρος

Latin Taurus ‘bull’

English taurus

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- ‘horn’

cheer, hart, horn, cerebral, crater, grail, migraine, carotid, cairn, procrastinate, cerebellum, cranium, keratin, cerebrum, rother, 50 more

through Proto-Italic *kornū ‘horn’

cornetto, 20 more

through Latin cornu ‘horn’

corny, cornea, cornet, 21 more

Today it means

adj Having horns like those of a bull.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- / tauricornous

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