The corpus record — Latin

bicornis

having two horns

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Where it lives

Carmen Saeculare 1 · 32.36/10k
Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

bĭcornis — Lewis & Short

bĭcornis, ebis-cornu.

I Adj., having two horns, two-horned (poet. or in postAug. prose): animal, Plin. 11, 46, 106, § 255: caper, Ov. M. 15, 304: fauni, id. H. 4, 49; id. F. 2, 268; 5, 99.—Poet., of a two-pronged fork: furcae, Verg. G. 1, 264; Ov. M. 8, 647: ferrum, Col. Poët. 10, 148.—Of the new moon, * Hor. C. S. 35.—Of rivers with two mouths (perh. only epith. ornans; cf. amnis init.): Rhenus, Verg. A. 8, 727: Granicus, Ov. M. 11, 763.—Of the top of Parnassus: jugum, Stat. Th. 1, 63 (cf. biceps).—

II Subst.: bĭcornes, horned animals for sacrifice: AVRATA. FRONTE. BICORNES., Inscr. Orell. 2335.

In the wild

bicorni Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.647
bicornis Vergil, Georgicon 1.264
bicorni Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.304
bicornis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.18
bicornis Horace, Carmen Saeculare 1.35
bicornis Ovid, Fasti 5.99

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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