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Latin
Etymology
From cornupeta, with replacement of ending with -us; alternatively, from cornū (“horn, antler”) + petō (“to attack, assault, thrust at”) + -us (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
cornupetus (feminine cornupeta, neuter cornupetum); first/second-declension adjective
- Alternative form of cornupeta
Abedoc,
Canones Hibernenses INCIPIUNT CANONES ADOMNANI., VII.:
- In lege enim animal cornupetum, si hominem occiderit, illicitum est.
704 CE, Adamnanus Hiiensis,
Canones I:
- In lege enim animal cornupetum, si hominem occiderit, inlicitum est.
1649, Jacob Möller, Discursus Duo Philologico-Juridici, Prior de Cornutis, Posterior de Hermaphroditis, Eorumque Jure, Uterque Ex Jure Divino, Canonico, Civili..., 2nd edition, page 4:Mos enim fuit apud Romanos, cornupetorum boum cornua foeno circumligare, ut obviam prodeuntes cavendum sibi admonerentur.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1733,
Acta Sanctorum, Mensis Augustus Vita S. Waltheni Abbatis:
[1][2]- deinde tauri cornupeti mugientis, formas induit.
- 1831 translation by George Finch
- and lastly of a roaring long-horned bull.
Inflection
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- ^ Acta Sanctorum. Augusti. Tomus Primus., 1733, page 264
- ^ George Finch (1831) A Sketch of the Romish Controversy, page 415