Cornetとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /kɔɹˈnɛt/
• 韻: -ɛt
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkɔːnɪt/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)nɪt

語源 1

From 中期英語 cornet, from Old French cornet, a diminutive of a popular reflex of Latin cornū (“horn”).

名詞

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 (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.
4. (obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
   • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:

     They discerned a body of five cornets of horse very full, standing in very good order to receive them.

5. (music) A kind of organ stop.
6. (botany) A hollow horn-like growth.

派生語

語源 2

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

名詞

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

派生語

• cornetcy

派生語

アナグラム

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

語源

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈkɔrnit/, /ˈkɔrnɛt/

名詞

cornet (plural cornettes)

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

派生した語

• English: cornet

参照

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