‖ corˈnuto Obs. or arch.
Also 5 cornodo.
[It.:—L. cornūtus cornute.]
A cuckold.
| c 1430 Lydg. Bochas ii. xxiii. (1554) 60 a, As in some lond, cornodo, men them call. 1598 Shakes. Merry W. iii. v. 71 The peaking Curnuto her husband. 1651 Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. iii. iii. 475 Their husbands bankrupts, if not cornuto's. 1774 Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) II. 119 [He] can prove himself a Cornuto. 1830 Fraser's Mag. I. 42 The husband will not be obliged..to eat a cornuto dinner with his frail spouse, nor share her detestable couch. |