cothurnus

== English == === Alternative forms === cothurn, kothornos === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin cothurnus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos). === Noun === cothurnus (plural cothurni) A buskin used in ancient tragedy. (figurative) The stilted style denoting ancient tragedy. 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 410 Madame Grandoni had insisted on the fact that she was an actress, and this little speech seemed a glimpse of the cothurnus. ==== Derived terms ==== cothurnal ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔˈtʰʊr.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koˈtur.nus] === Noun === cothurnus m (genitive cothurnī); second declension cothurnus, buskin tragedy (dramatic or poetic style) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== cothurnātus ==== Descendants ==== → English: cothurn (learned) → French: cothurne (learned) → German: Kothurn (learned) → Italian: coturno (learned) → Polish: koturn (learned) → Russian: коту́рн (kotúrn) (learned) → Spanish: coturno (learned) === References === “cothurnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cothurnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "cothurnus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “cothurnus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “cothurnus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “cothurnus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin