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corno

horn

noun KOR-noh Rare

Origin: From Latin cornu (horn).

Also means

horn (musical instrument)

Usage Note

Corno has an irregular plural that changes gender: il cornole corna (horns of animals, or colloquially a cuckold's 'horns') but i corni for musical instruments. Fare le corna is both a superstitious gesture to ward off bad luck and a vulgar idiom for infidelity.

Examples

"Il toro ha le corna molto lunghe."

Natural Translation

The bull has very long horns.

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