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English
Noun
corneolus (uncountable)
- (obsolete) horn
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From corneus (“horny”) + -olus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
corneolus (feminine corneola, neuter corneolum); first/second-declension adjective
- Like or composed of horn, horny.
- (figuratively) Hard, firm.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “corneolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “corneolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- corneolus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- corneolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.