Obs. or arch. Also 5 cornodo. [lt.:—L. cornūtus CORNUTE.] A cuckold.
c. 1430. Lydg., Bochas, II. xxiii. (1554), 60 a. As in some lond, cornodo, men them call.
1598. Shaks., Merry W., III. v. 71. The peaking Curnuto her husband.
1651. Burton, Anat. Mel., III. ii. III. iii. 475. Their husbands bankrupts, if not cornuto’s.
1774. Gibbon, Misc. Wks. (1814), II. 119. [He] can prove himself a Cornuto.
1830. Fraser’s Mag., I. 42. The husband will not be obliged … to eat a cornuto dinner with his frail spouse, nor share her detestable couch.
