cornupetus

From cornupeta, with replacement of ending with -us; alternatively, from cornū (“horn, antler”) +‎ petō (“to attack, assault, thrust at”) +‎ -us (adjectival suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /korˈnu.pe.tus/, [kɔrˈnʊpɛt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /korˈnu.pe.tus/, [korˈnuːpet̪us]

cornupetus (feminine cornupeta, neuter cornupetum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Alternative form of cornupeta
   • Abedoc, Canones Hibernenses INCIPIUNT CANONES ADOMNANI., VII.:

     In lege enim animal cornupetum, si hominem occiderit, illicitum est.

   • 704 CE, Adamnanus Hiiensis, Canones I:

     In lege enim animal cornupetum, si hominem occiderit, inlicitum est.

   • 1649, Jacob Möller, Discursus Duo Philologico-Juridici, Prior de Cornutis, Posterior de Hermaphroditis, Eorumque Jure, Uterque Ex Jure Divino, Canonico, Civili..., 2nd edition, page 4:

     Mos enim fuit apud Romanos, cornupetorum boum cornua foeno circumligare, ut obviam prodeuntes cavendum sibi admonerentur.

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   • 1733, Acta Sanctorum, Mensis Augustus Vita S. Waltheni Abbatis:^[1][2]

     deinde tauri cornupeti mugientis, formas induit.

     • 1831 translation by George Finch

       and lastly of a roaring long-horned bull.

First/second-declension adjective.

• cornūcōpia