horn
Signification (English)
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- A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
- Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
- An antler.
- The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
- A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
- An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
- Any of several musical wind instruments.
- An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
- A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
- A sound signaling the expiration of time.
- A conical device used to direct waves.
- (informal) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
- (slang) A telephone.
- (slang) An erection of the penis.
- A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
- A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
- An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
- In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
Concepts
corne d’animal
cor d’harmonie
en corne
sirène d’alarme
korn
les bois
coup de sifflet
Synonyms
car horn
automobile horn
motor horn
bick iron
signal alarm
anvil horn
brass wind
buffalo horn
wrist joint
medicinal horn 3
house of chief
animal horn
brass wind instrument
beck iron
jiao-elongated clitoris
bone knob
ram’s horn
anvil beak
beak iron
horn radiator
horn-lens antenna
electromagnetic horn
hoghorn antenna
valve horn
alarm whistle
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/hɔːn/
Étymologie (English)
In summary
From Middle English horn, horne, from Old English horn, from Proto-West Germanic *horn, from Proto-Germanic *hurną. Compare West Frisian hoarn, Dutch hoorn, Low German Hoorn, horn, German Horn, Danish and Swedish horn, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽 (haurn). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-nó-m, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn”). Compare Breton kern (“horn”), Latin cornū, Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras), Proto-Slavic *sьrna, Old Church Slavonic сьрна (sĭrna, “roedeer”), Hittite [script needed] (surna, “horn”), Persian سر (sar), Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅga, “horn”). (telephone): From the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes.
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