cornet

• (US) IPA^(key): /kɔɹˈnɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːnɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nɪt

From Middle English cornet, from Old French cornet, a diminutive of a popular reflex of Latin cornū (“horn”).

cornet (plural cornets)

1. A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.

   Synonyms: cornet-à-piston, cornet-à-pistons

2. A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
3. A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (Britain, dated) an ice cream cone.
4. (obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
   • Clarendon

     A body of five cornets of horse.

5. A kind of organ stop.

• cornetist

From Middle French cornette, diminutive of corne, from Latin cornua (“horns”).

cornet (plural cornets)

1. The white headdress worn by the Sisters of Charity.
2. (obsolete) The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
3. (historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).
   • 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 45:

     No general would have sent a mere cornet in command of five hundred horse: Fairfax despatched a colonel to take charge as soon as he heard what had happened.

   • 1999, Mike Mitchell, translating HJC von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, III.14, Dedalus 2016, p. 253:

     This cornet [transl. Cornet] was a brave young cavalier and not more than two years older than me.

• cornetcy

• Cotner, centro-, corten, creton, cronet, retcon

From corne +‎ -et.

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.nɛ/

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cornet m (plural cornets)

1. (paper) cone
2. (pastry) horn; (ice-cream) cone
3. post horn
   • 2000, Jean-François Parot, L'énigme des Blancs-Manteaux, JC Lattès 2012, p. 17:

     Il tenait à la main gauche un cornet semblable à celui dont usaient les postillons ; en cas de péril, l'alarme serait donnée au patron qui tenait la barre à l'arrière.

     In his left hand he held a horn like those used by post riders; in case of danger, the alarm would be given to the owner who was at the forward rail.

4. (music) cornet; cornet stop (on organ)
5. portable inkhorn
6. (Switzerland) plastic bag

• English: cornet

• cornette

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

• “cornet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• conter, contre, contré

• cornette

Borrowed from Old French cornet; equivalent to corne (“callus”) +‎ -et.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔrnit/, /ˈkɔrnɛt/

cornet (plural cornettes)

1. A cornet (musical instrument).
2. (rare) A triangle-shaped slice of bread.

• English: cornet

• “cornet (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.