cornutor
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Related to Latin cornu (“horn”). Compare English horner.
Noun
[edit]cornutor (plural cornutors)
- (obsolete) One who makes another person into a cuckold.
- 1659, Robert Heath, “Why the Cornutee loves the Cornutor?”, in Paradoxical Assertions and Philosophical Problems Full of Delight and Recreation for all Ladies and Youthful Fancie[1]:
- Or as the Spaniel who loves his Master the more for beating him, so doth not the Cornutee love the Cornutor the more for cudgelling his wife with his Flabellum […]
- c. 1680, Thomas Jordan, “On a Citizen that was so unreasonably jealous of his wife, that he durst not trust her with the neerest in blood of her own kindred”, in The Muses Melody in a Consort of Poetrie with Diverse Occasionall and Compendious Epistles[2]:
- He that thinks every man is his wife's suitor, / Defiles his bed, and proves his own cornutor.