cornus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin cornus. === Noun === cornus (plural cornuses) (botany) Any of the genus Cornus of dogwoods. == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɔʁ.ny/ === Adjective === cornus masculine plural of cornu === Anagrams === curons == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Unknown. Akin to Ancient Greek κράνος (krános), κράνον (kránon, “cornel”), which perhaps indicates that both are borrowed from a Mediterranean substrate language. ==== Noun ==== cornus f (genitive cornī); second declension cornus f (genitive cornūs); fourth declension cornel, dogwood (tree and fruit) ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun. Fourth-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== corneus cornētum cornulus Proto-West Germanic: *kornul (see there for further descendants) Vulgar Latin: *cornus putridus Galician: *corno pudrio Galician: capudre, capudrio, capudro, capurro, carnapudeiro, cornabude, cornabullo, cornapuz Vulgar Latin: *cornus cerasius Galician: *corno cereixo Galician: cancereixo, canfreixo, escancrés ===== Descendants ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== cornūs genitive singular of cornū̆ === References === “cornus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cornus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “cornus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. cornus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung cornū in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung