corniger Latin · revision 34100

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *ḱrn-o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkɔr.nɪ.ɡɛr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkɔr.ni.d͡ʒer]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''corniger''' (feminine cornigera, neuter cornigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a compound of [[m|la|cornū|t=horn]] and [[m|la|-ger|t=bearing]], from [[m|la|gerō|t=to carry]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|cornū]] to [[itc-pro|*kornu-|t=horn]] and [[ine-pro|*ḱrn-o-|t=horn]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Lucretius,^(de Vaan 2008) who uses it of stags and of the horned mothers of kids; the TLL finds it from Cicero and Lucretius on,^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and a verse of Cicero's uses it of the Bull.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a poetic word for having horns or antlers, used of stags, heifers and the constellation of the Bull.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Ovid calls Jupiter Ammon horned.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) As a noun it is a horned animal, as Seneca's horned beast of the sea, a bull.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of stags and goats.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the Bull.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of Jupiter Ammon.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of a bull from the sea.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Having [[m|en|horn|alt=horns]] or antlers, [[m|en|horned]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''Iuppiter corniger'', Ammon.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A horned animal.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[bicorniger]]

+ * [[tricorniger]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cornu|alt=cornū]]

+ * [[cornutus|alt=cornūtus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}