cornipes Latin · revision 34502

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=81/79–52/50 BC, Catullus|origins=la cornū, la pēs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cornipēs''' (genitive cornipedis); third-declension one-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cornū|pēs|t1=horn|t2=foot]], literally “horn-footed”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and Lewis & Short record it first in Catullus, of a she-goat, ''capella''.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a poetic word for hoofed animals:^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil has ''cornipedes equi'', horn-footed horses,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Ovid gives the epithet to Faunus, and Silius to the foot of Pan.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Used as a masculine noun it means a horse, in Seneca's ''Phaedra'' and in Silius,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Claudian, who uses the noun most often, also applies it to the centaur Chiron;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Avienus has it for a centaur too.^(Conte 2010)

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+ Medieval writers in Britain use it for a steed or war-horse.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it of a she-goat.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of horses.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it as a noun, “horse”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid 4th century AD – Avienus uses it of a centaur.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 400 AD – Claudian uses the noun of horses and of the centaur Chiron.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Having horny feet, [[m|en|hoofed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(poetic)'' A [[m|en|horse]], steed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(poetic)'' A [[m|en|centaur]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|warhorse|alt=war-horse]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cornū]]

+ * [[pēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}