adj
Meaning 1
Having horns.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- A goat is a horned animal.
- a bull's head gules
- horned argent
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
horned
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈhɔː(ɹ)nd/
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adjective, also: /ˈhɔː(ɹ)nɪd/
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rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)nd
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rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)nɪd
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CMU ARPABET: HH AO1 R N D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Cuckolded.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
simple past and past participle of horn
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- horned viper
- great horned owl
- the unicorn--a mythical horned beast
- long-horned cattle
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: hornless
History
Etymology
From Middle English horned, hornyd, from Old English hyrned, ġehyrned (“having horns; horned”), from Proto-Germanic *hurnidaz (“horned”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *hurnijaną (“to horn; provide or fit with horns”); equivalent to horn (“noun”) + -ed. Cognate with Dutch gehoornd (“horned”), German gehörnt (“horned”), Danish hornede (“horned”).
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: أَقْرَن (ʔaqran) — having horns
- Aromanian: curnut — having horns
- Belarusian: рага́ты (raháty) — having horns
- Bulgarian: рога́т (rogát) — having horns
- Catalan: banyut — having horns
- Czech: rohatý — having horns
- Dutch: gehoornd — having horns
- Finnish: sarvekas — having horns
- French: cornu — having horns
- Galician: cornudo — having horns
- German: gehörnt — having horns
- Greek: κερασφόρος (kerasfóros) — having horns
- Irish: beannach — having horns
- Middle Irish: adarcach — having horns
- Italian: cornuto — having horns
- Komi-Zyrian: сюра (śura) — having horns
- Latin: cornutus — having horns
- Latin: corniger — having horns
- Lithuanian: raguotas — having horns
- Macedonian: ро́гат (rógat) — having horns
- Persian: شاخدار (šâx-dâr) — having horns
- Polish: rogaty — having horns
- Portuguese: chifrudo — having horns
- Portuguese: cornudo — having horns
- Romanian: cornut — having horns
- Russian: рога́тый (rogátyj) — having horns
- Slovak: rohatý — having horns
- Spanish: astado — having horns
- Swedish: behornad — having horns
- Turkish: boynuzlu — having horns
- Udmurt: сюро (śuro) — having horns
- Ukrainian: рога́тий (rohátyj) — having horns
- French: accorné — heraldry sense
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