cothurnus
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cothurnus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos).
Noun
cothurnus (plural cothurni)
- A buskin used in ancient tragedy.
- (figurative) The stilted style denoting ancient tragedy.
- 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 410
- Madame Grandoni had insisted on the fact that she was an actress, and this little speech seemed a glimpse of the cothurnus.
- 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 410
Derived terms
Translations
buskin — see buskin
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos).
Pronunciation
Noun
cothurnus m (genitive cothurnī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cothurnus | cothurnī |
| genitive | cothurnī | cothurnōrum |
| dative | cothurnō | cothurnīs |
| accusative | cothurnum | cothurnōs |
| ablative | cothurnō | cothurnīs |
| vocative | cothurne | cothurnī |
Derived terms
Descendants
- → English: cothurn (learned)
- → French: cothurne (learned)
- → German: Kothurn (learned)
- → Italian: coturno (learned)
- → Polish: koturn (learned)
- → Russian: коту́рн (kotúrn) (learned)
- → Spanish: coturno (learned)
References
- “cothurnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cothurnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "cothurnus", 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)
- cothurnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cothurnus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cothurnus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin