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Latin
Etymology
Deverbal from a reflexive *sē excornāre (“to make a fool of oneself”, cf. Italian scornarsi, literally “to tear off one's horns”), from ex- + cornū + -āre.
Pronunciation
Noun
*excornum m (Proto-Italo-Romance)
- (uncountable) shame, humiliation
Descendants
Further reading
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “scornu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 4, page 403: “[…] quasi excornu […]”