Noun: cornopean
| Singular | cornopean |
| Plural | cornopeans |
Sample Sentences
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[…]outside the school-gates were drawn up several chaises […] and a cornopean player, hired for the occasion, blowing away "A southerly wind and a cloudy sky," waking all peaceful inhabitants half-way down the High Street. [1857, Thomas Hughes, chapter 7, in Tom Brown's School Days, part I:]
Nouns inflected like cornopean
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin cornus (“horn”) + English paean (“song of praise”). See: Latin Nouns '
cornus'.