cornel
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cornel
1400–50; late Middle English corneille < Middle French < Vulgar Latin *cornicul ( a ), equivalent to Latin corn ( us ) cornel + -i- -i- + -cula -cule 1
Example Sentences
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These are not illuminating; but "obsolete variant of kern" leads directly to "corn," and to "kernel," of which "cornel" is a disused form.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beyond it were slopes covered with sombre trees like dark clouds, but all about them lay a tumbled heathland, grown with ling and broom and cornel, and other shrubs that they did not know.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
And Kirke tossed them acorns, mast, and cornel berries—fodder for hogs who rut and slumber on the earth.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
He protested: “Ah, Mordred, cornel Nay, we are not quarrelling with our King. There is no thought of that about it.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Two cornel javelins, tipt with steel, they bear, Some, polished quivers; and a pliant chain Of twisted gold around the neck they wear; Three companies—three captains scour the plain.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
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