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出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/12/16 23:17 UTC 版)
From cornū (“horn”) + petō (“attack, assail”) + -a (suffix deriving agent nouns from verbs). The two-word expression cornū petō "attack with (one's) horn(s)" is attested already in Classical Latin (e.g. Horace Sermones 2.1.52, Vergil Aeneid 9.629). The compound adjective is used in the Latin Bible as a translation of Biblical Hebrew נַגָּח (naggāḥ, “(apt to) goring”) (which occurs in the Torah only in the two verses of Exodus cited below). The Latin translation may be influenced by Ancient Greek κερατιστής (keratistḗs), the translation used by the Septuagint, which is built on κέρας (kéras, “horn”). (Although the Latin Vulgate was intended to be a translation from Hebrew rather than from Greek, Jerome was familiar with the Septuagint and with prior Latin translations based on it.)
cornupeta (genitive cornupetae); first-declension one-termination adjective
First-declension one-termination adjective.
cornupeta