cornuarius

Latin

Etymology

From cornū (“horn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kor.nuˈaː.ri.us/, [kɔrnuˈäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kor.nuˈa.ri.us/, [kornuˈäːrius]

Noun

cornuārius m (genitive cornuāriī or cornuārī); second declension

1. A maker of horns or trumpets.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cornuārius	cornuāriī
genitive	cornuāriī cornuārī1	cornuāriōrum
dative	cornuāriō	cornuāriīs
accusative	cornuārium	cornuāriōs
ablative	cornuāriō	cornuāriīs
vocative	cornuārie	cornuāriī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• corneolus
• cornescō
• corneus
• cornicen
• corniculāns
• corniculātus
• corniculum
• cornifer
• corniger
• cornipēs
• cornū
• cornuālis
• cornuātus
• cornūcōpia
• cornulum
• cornupeta
• cornūtus
• unicornis

References

• “cornuarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cornuarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.