cornet

Signification (Anglais)

1. A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
2. A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
3. A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.
4. (obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
5. A kind of organ stop.
6. A hollow horn-like growth.

Concepts

cornet

cornet à pistons

trompette

🎺

bugle

cornette

clairons

cornet à bouquin

cornettte

avertisseur

⚠️

trompette à clefs

bois

🪵

clairon

corne

Synonymes

horn

trumpet

🎺

bugle

trump

cornetist

flugelhorn

coif

pipe

clarion

twist

wind instrument

French horn

cornopean

cornet-a’-pistons

cornett

cornett player

cone

bugle horn

Traductions

cornetta

Kornett

corneta

kornet

corneta

cucurucho

Flügelhorn

külah

τρομπέτα

corneta

Horn

Spitztüte

بوق

🎺

tromba

🎺

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kɔɹˈnɛt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: cornet

In summary

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