cornutor en · NOUN
Etymology
From Italian cornuto, from Latin cornūtus, from cornu. By surface analysis, cornute + -or.
Meanings
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(obsolete) One who makes another person into a cuckold.
He that thinks every man is his wife's suitor, / Defiles his bed, and proves his own cornutor.
c. 1680, Thomas Jordan, “On a Citizen that was so unreasonably jealous of his wife, that he durst not trust her with the neerest in blood of her own kindred”, in The Muses Melody in a Consort of Poetrie with Diverse Occasionall and Compendious Epistles:Or as the Spaniel who loves his Master the more for beating him, so doth not the Cornutee love the Cornutor the more for cudgelling his wife with his Flabellum […]
1659, Robert Heath, “Why the Cornutee loves the Cornutor?”, in Paradoxical Assertions and Philosophical Problems Full of Delight and Recreation for all Ladies and Youthful Fancie:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cornutors | Number=Plur | lexicographic |