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cornucopia

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˌkɔː.njəˈkəʊ.pi.ə/
  • US: /ˌkɔɹ.nəˈkoʊ.pi.ə/
  • US: /ˌkɔɹ.njəˈkoʊ.pi.ə/
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  • CMU ARPABET: K AO2 R N AH0 K OW1 P IY0 AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain; or full of whatever its owner wanted: or, an image of a such a horn, either in two or three dimensions.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Greek, countable, uncountable

Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

An abundance or plentiful supply.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • The store provided a veritable cornucopia of modern gadgets.
  • Despite its sparse syntax, the expressiveness and flexibility of the λ-calculus make it a cornucopia of logic and mathematics. The Lambda Calculus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

the property of being extremely abundant

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the profusion of detail
  • the idiomatic richness of English

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: profusion, profuseness, richness

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: abundance, copiousness, teemingness

Narrower terms: overgrowth, greenness, verdancy, verdure, wilderness

5

noun

Meaning 5

a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: horn of plenty

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: symbol, symbolization, symbolisation, symbolic representation

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- Proto-Indo-European *-h2 ? Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh2-der. Proto-Italic *kornū Latin cornū Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin co- Proto-Indo-European *h3ep-der. Proto-Italic *opis Latin ops Latin cōps Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin cōpia Latin cornūcōpiabor. English cornucopia Borrowed from Latin cornūcōpia.

Across languages

Translations

82 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: قرن الوفرة — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Armenian: առատության եղջյուր (aṙatutʻyan eġǰyur) — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Basque: ugaritasunaren adar — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Belarusian: рог дастатку (roh dastatku) — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Bulgarian: рог на изоби́лието (rog na izobílieto) — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Burmese: ပဒေသာပင် (pa.desapang) — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Catalan: corn de l'abundància — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Catalan: cornucòpia — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Chinese Mandarin: 豐饒之角 /丰饶之角 (fēngráo zhī jiǎo) — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Czech: roh hojnosti — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Danish: overflødighedshorn — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Dutch: hoorn des overvloeds — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Esperanto: abundokorno — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Esperanto: korno de abundeco — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Estonian: küllusesarv — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Finnish: runsaudensarvi — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • French: corne d'abondance — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Galician: cornucopia — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Georgian: სიუხვის რქა (siuxvis rka) — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • German: Füllhorn — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Greek: κέρας της Αμάλθειας (kéras tis Amáltheias) — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Ancient Greek: Ἀμαλθείας κέρας (Amaltheías kéras) — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Hebrew: קרן השפע — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Hungarian: bőségszaru — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Icelandic: nægtahorn — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Indonesian: kornukopia — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Irish: corn na flúirse — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Italian: cornucopia — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Japanese: コルヌー・コピアイ (korunū-kopiai) — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Kazakh: молшылық мүйізі (molşylyq müiızı) — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Korean: 코르누코피아 (koreunukopia) — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Latin: cornūcōpia — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Latvian: pārpilnības rags — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Lithuanian: gausybės ragas — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Malay: kornukopia — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Norwegian Bokmål: overflødighetshorn — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: overflodshorn — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Persian: شاخ نعمت — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Polish: róg obfitości — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Polish: róg Amaltei — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Portuguese: cornucópia — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Romanian: cornucopia — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Russian: рог изоби́лия (rog izobílija) — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Serbo-Croatian: rog obilja — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Serbo-Croatian: kornukopija — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Slovene: rog izobilja — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Spanish: cornucopia — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Spanish: cuerno de la abundancia — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Swedish: ymnighetshorn — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Tagalog: kornukopya — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Thai: กรวยแห่งความอุดมสมบูรณ์ — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Turkish: cornucopia — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Ukrainian: ріг достатку (rih dostatku) — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Welsh: corn llawnder — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Welsh: corn digonedd — mythical horn endlessly overflowing with food and drink
  • Chinese Mandarin: 角形裝飾物 /角形装饰物 (jiǎoxíng zhuāngshìwù) — hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things
  • Danish: overflødighedshorn — hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things
  • Finnish: runsaudensarvi — hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things
  • Hungarian: bőségszaru — hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things
  • Norwegian Bokmål: overflødighetshorn — hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: overflodshorn — hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things
  • Swedish: ymnighetshorn — hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things
  • Chinese Mandarin: 聚寶盆 /聚宝盆 (jùbǎopén) — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Chinese Mandarin: 寶庫 /宝库 (bǎokù) — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Czech: přehršel — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Czech: přehršle — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Czech: spousta — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Czech: habaděj — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Danish: overflod — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Finnish: runsaudensarvi — abundance or plentiful supply
  • French: corne d'abondance — abundance or plentiful supply
  • German: Fülle — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Hungarian: bőség — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Japanese: 宝庫 (hōko) — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Korean: 보고 (bogo) — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Norwegian Bokmål: overflod — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: overflod — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Polish: obfitość — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Polish: róg obfitości — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Polish: róg Amaltei — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Portuguese: cornucópia — abundance or plentiful supply
  • Russian: изоби́лие (izobílije) — abundance or plentiful supply