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cornute

UK/kɔːˈnjuːt/

cornute verb: to give 'horns' to; to make a cuckold of.

Verb

cornute (third-person singular simple present cornutes, present participle cornuting, simple past and past participle cornuted)

  1. (transitive) To give 'horns' to; to make a cuckold of.
    • ‘Will you cooperate with me in cornuting your husband? It's a must!’1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 357

Adjective

cornute (not comparable)

  1. Bearing horns or shaped like a horn; cornuted.

Noun

cornute (plural cornutes)

  1. A member of the order Cornuta.
    • Stylophorans are divided into two orders the Cornuta and Ankyroida: cornutes have asymmetrical thecae, aulacophores with stylocones and cover plates over the food groove that open widely; ankyroids have essentially bilaterally symmetrical thecae, aulacophores with styloids and in most the cover...1997 October, R[onald] L. Parsley, “The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: non Calcichordata”, in The Paleontological Society Papers, volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge...

Forms of cornute

Verb
third-person singular presentcornutes
present participlecornuting
past participlecornuted
pastcornuted
Noun
pluralcornutes

Origin of cornute

From Latin cornūtus, from cornu.

Words formed from cornute

Words that rhyme with cornute

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Questions about cornute

What does cornute mean?
Cornute means to give 'horns' to; to make a cuckold of.
What part of speech is cornute?
Cornute can be a verb, an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce cornute?
Cornute is pronounced /kɔːˈnjuːt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of cornute?
The past tense of cornute is cornuted.

Words near cornute in the dictionary

  1. cornulitids
  2. cornupete
  3. cornus
  4. cornuses
  5. cornusiin
  6. cornute
  7. cornuted
  8. cornutes
  9. cornutin
  10. cornutine
  11. cornuting

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