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cornu

cornu noun: a horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.

Noun

cornu (plural cornua)

  1. A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
    • Near-synonyms: infundibulum, choana, pelvis
  2. A brass instrument from Ancient Rome about 3 metres long in the shape of a letter 'G'.

Proper noun capitalized: Cornu

Cornu

  1. A surname from French.
    1. (attributive) French mathematician Marie Alfred Cornu (1841–1902).

cornu meaning in Tamil and Urdu

cornu in Tamil

எலும்பு முனை, கொம்பு

cornu in Urdu

شاخ, سینگ

Synonyms of cornu

Forms of cornu

pluralcornua

Origin of cornu

Borrowed from Latin cornū (“horn”). Doublet of corn (“callus”), corno, and horn.

Words formed from cornu

Phrases with cornu

Questions about cornu

What does cornu mean?
Cornu means a horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
What is cornu in Tamil?
Cornu in Tamil is எலும்பு முனை, கொம்பு. See Cornu meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cornu?
Cornu can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of cornu?
The plural of cornu is cornua.

Words near cornu in the dictionary

  1. Cornsweet
  2. Cornsweet illusion
  3. Cornsweet illusions
  4. Cornthwaite
  5. Cornton
  6. cornu
  7. cornu ammonis
  8. Cornu Luncii
  9. Cornu spiral
  10. cornua
  11. cornua ammonis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cornu (page history and authors); Cornu (page history and authors); cornu (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cornu (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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