cornuto

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cornuto

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Borrowed from Italian cornuto, from Latin cornūtus (“horned”).

noun cornutos · cornutoes

  1. obsolete A cuckold. No, Master Brook, but the peaking cornuto / her husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual / 'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our / encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested, / and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy

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@misc{cornuto_2026,
  title = {cornuto},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cornuto},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}