Noun: cornet
| Singular | cornet |
| Plural | cornets |
Sample Sentences
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They discerned a body of five cornets of horse very full, standing in very good order to receive them. [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:]
Nouns inflected like cornet
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 Middle English cornet, from Old French cornet, a diminutive of a popular reflex of Latin cornū (“horn”). See: Middle English Nouns '
cornet', Latin Nouns '
cornū'.