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English
Etymology
Old French cornet, a diminutive of corne (“horn”), from Latin cornū.
Pronunciation
Noun
cornett (plural cornetts)
- (music) An early horn wind instrument used in European music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Not to be confused with later brass instrument.
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Translations
wind instrument
- Bulgarian: ци́нк m (cínk), ци́нка (bg) f (cínka)
- Catalan: cornetto m, corneta (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: cink (cs) m
- Danish: zink (da) c or n, sink (da) c or n
- Dutch: zink (nl) f or m, cornetto m
- Esperanto: klariono, korneto
- Estonian: tsink (et)
- Finnish: sinkki (fi)
- French: cornet à bouquin (fr) m
- German: Zink (de) m
- Hebrew: קוֹרְנֵטוֹ m (korenéto)
- Hungarian: cink (hu), cornett, kornett (hu)
- Italian: cornetto (it) m
- Japanese: ツィンク (tsinku), コルネット (ja) (korunetto)
- Korean: 코르넷 (koreunet)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: zink m or n, zinke m or n, sink (no) m or n, sinke m or n
- Nynorsk: zink m or n, zinke m or n, sink (nn) m or n
- Occitan: cornetto m
- Polish: cynk (pl) m
- Portuguese: corneto (pt) m
- Russian: корне́т (ru) m (kornét), ци́нк (ru) m (cínk)
- Saterland Frisian: Sink
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: (please verify) ко̀рнет m, (please verify) ци̏нк m
- Roman: (please verify) kòrnet (sh) m, (please verify) cȉnk (sh) m
- Spanish: cornetto m, corneta renacentista f, corneta negra f, corneta curva f
- Swedish: sinka (sv) c, zinka (sv) c
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