Etymology

longicorn

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Today it means: Long-horned. Full definition →

Latin longus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromlongus“long”
  2. English todaylongicorn

From Latin longus (“long”) + cornu (“horn”). Compare French longicorne.

Words from the same roots

Latinlongus all →

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