bicornis

Latin

Etymology

From bi- +‎ cornū +‎ -is.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /biˈkor.nis/, [bɪˈkɔrnɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /biˈkor.nis/, [biˈkɔrnis]

Adjective

bicornis (neuter bicorne); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. two-horned
2. two-pronged

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	bicornis	bicorne		bicornēs	bicornia
Genitive	bicornis			bicornium
Dative	bicornī			bicornibus
Accusative	bicornem	bicorne		bicornēs bicornīs	bicornia
Ablative	bicornī			bicornibus
Vocative	bicornis	bicorne		bicornēs	bicornia

Descendants

• → Arabic: بقرنية buqurnīya (Al-Andalus, Morocco, Algeria)
• Old Catalan: bigorna
• → English: bicorn
• Old French: bigorne
  • Middle French: bigorne
    • → English: bickern
    • French: bigorne
• Occitan: bigorna (modern)
• Portuguese: bigorna
• Vulgar Latin: *bicornia
  • Old Catalan: bigòrnia
    • Catalan: bigòrnia
  • Old French: bigorgne
  • Galician: bigornia
  • Italian: bicornia (not attested until 17th c. (see Coromines & Pascual), borrowing?)
  • Old Spanish: bicornia, bigornia
    • Spanish: bigornia

See also

• unicornis

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “bigornia”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 583
• “bicornis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bicornis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bicornis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.