Noun: cothurn
| Singular | cothurn |
| Plural | cothurns |
Sample Sentences
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The moment had arrived when it was thought that the mask and the cothurn might again be assumed with effect. [1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like cothurn
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 cothurnus, from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos). Compare cothurnus. See: Latin Nouns '
cothurnus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κόθορνος'.