Talk:cornutus

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cornutus

Latin. Rfv-sense: cuckolded. Removed out of process by @CleverBrownie. — Fenakhay ^{(حيطي · مساهماتي)} 01:53, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

It exists for New Latin: see this 17th-century (mock) treatise titled Discursus duo philologico-juridici, prior de cornutis, posterior de hermaphroditis […], i.e. discourses on cuckolds and hermaphrodites. Otherwise, not implausible, it's not listed specifically as a sense in any dictionary I can find but it is mentioned in various philological works. The association of horns with cuckoldry is apparently ancient. But the FEW has the sense first actually attested in late Middle French. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 00:52, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Somebody cited it in Sept. 2023. Fay Freak (talk) 07:25, 29 July 2024 (UTC)