corne

See also: corné and čorne

English

Noun

corne (usually uncountable, plural cornes)

1. Obsolete spelling of corn.
   • 1600, Hugh Platt, “Whether it be good to fill the holes with common earth, and to prepare the ſeed before it be ſet” (chapter 6), in The New and Admirable Arte of ſetting of Corne, page 24:

     I may ſhut vp this booke of plantes with a moſt famous and renowmed concluſion, I will heere declare how all kind of corne and pulſe, together with the vines themſelues ſhall recompence all our labours with great encreaſe.

   • 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 51:

     […] Finally , at this our Sauiour alſo aymeth in the Parable of the rich Man, who abounding in all prouiſion, and hauing more Corne and Fruits then roome to beſtow them in, […]

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French corne, from Vulgar Latin *corna (taken as a feminine singular), from Classical Latin cornua, plural of cornū (whence cor).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʁn

Noun

corne f (plural cornes)

1. (countable) horn
2. (uncountable) corn (callus)

Derived terms

• avoir des cornes
• bête à cornes
• corné
• corne à boire
• corne de brume
• Corne de l’Afrique
• corne d’abondance
• cornée
• corner
• cornet
• cornichon
• cornu
• prendre le taureau par les cornes

 

Further reading

• “corne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• ronce

Latin

Noun

corne

1. vocative singular of cornus

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French corne, corn; from Latin cornū.

Alternative forms

• corn, coorne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔrn/, /koːrn/

Noun

corne (plural cornes)

1. (rare) callus

Descendants

• English: corn

References

• “cō̆rne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.

Etymology 2

Noun

corne

1. Alternative form of corn (“grain”)

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *corna (taken as a feminine singular), from Classical Latin cornua, plural of cornū.

Noun

corne oblique singular, f (oblique plural cornes, nominative singular corne, nominative plural cornes)

1. Alternative form of corn m (“horn”)

Descendants

• French: corne

Portuguese

Verb

corne

1. inflection of cornar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative