bicornis

Latin

Etymology

Frombi-+‎cornū+‎-is.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/biˈkor.nis/,[bɪˈkɔrnɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/biˈkor.nis/,[biˈkɔrnis]

Adjective

bicornis(neuterbicorne);third-declensiontwo-termination adjective

1. two-horned
2. two-pronged

Declension

Third-declensiontwo-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	bicornis	bicorne		bicornēs	bicornia
genitive	bicornis			bicornium
dative	bicornī			bicornibus
accusative	bicornem	bicorne		bicornēs bicornīs	bicornia
ablative	bicornī			bicornibus
vocative	bicornis	bicorne		bicornēs	bicornia

Descendants

• →Arabic:بقرنيةbuqurnīya(Al-Andalus,Morocco,Algeria)
• Old Catalan:bigorna
• →English:bicorn
• Old French:bigorne
  • Middle French:bigorne
    • →English:bickern
    • French:bigorne
• Occitan:bigorna(modern)
• Portuguese:bigorna
• Vulgar Latin:*bicornia
  • Old Catalan:bigòrnia
    • Catalan:bigòrnia
  • Old French:bigorgne
  • Galician:bigornia
  • Italian:bicornia(not attested until 17th c. (see Coromines & Pascual),borrowing?)
  • Old Spanish:bicornia,bigornia
    • Spanish:bigornia

See also

• unicornis

References

• Joan Coromines,José A[ntonio] Pascual(1984) “bigornia”, inDiccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico[Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos,→ISBN,page583
• “bicornis”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bicornis”,inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary,New York: Harper & Brothers
• bicornisinGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français,Hachette.