cornuto

[ kawr-noo-toh, -nyoo- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural cor·nu·tos.

Origin of cornuto¹

1400–50; late Middle English < Italian: literally, one who is horned < Latin cornūtus horned. See cornute

Ferrugineo-flavescens, elytris virescentibus, sterno cornuto.

The fitter to make a cornuto: would your brows were most plain too!

When Arthur first in court began, —Agamemnon—Menelaus—was ever any duke a cornuto?

But shee shall bee no common thing, if I can keepe her seuerall: then, sir, wee must haue an Amorado that must make me Cornuto.

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