Noun: cornet
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | cornet |
| Plural m | cornets |
Sample Sentences
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Il tenait à la main gauche un cornet semblable à celui dont usaient les postillons ; en cas de péril, l'alarme serait donnée au patron qui tenait la barre à l'arrière. (In his left hand he held a horn like those used by post riders; in case of danger, the alarm would be given to the owner who was at the forward rail.) [2000, Jean-François Parot, L'énigme des Blancs-Manteaux, JC Lattès, published 2012, page 17:]
Nouns inflected like cornet
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From corne + -et.
Verbs referencing "cornet"
Finnish Nouns
kornetti, German Nouns
Kornett, German Nouns
Cornet.
Translations