Meanings
plural cornutos · plural cornutoes
- obsoleteA 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
a. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, scene 5
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Origin
- Latincornūtus“horned”
- Italiancornuto
- Englishcornuto
Borrowed from Italian cornuto, from Latin cornūtus (“horned”).
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cornuto. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cornuto
“cornuto.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cornuto. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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