# horned
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɔː(ɹ)nd/, (adjective also) /ˈhɔː(ɹ)nɪd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nd, -ɔː(ɹ)nɪd

### Etymology 1

From Middle English horned, hornyd, from Old English hyrned, ġehyrned (“having horns; horned”), from Proto-Germanic *hurnidaz (“horned”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *hurnijaną (“to horn; provide or fit with horns”); equivalent to horn (“noun”) +‎ -ed. Cognate with Dutch gehoornd (“horned”), German gehörnt (“horned”), Danish hornede (“horned”).

#### Adjective

horned (not comparable)
* Having horns.
    A goat is a horned animal.
    a bull's head gules, horned argent
** 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:The horned moon with one bright star / Within the nether tip.
* (obsolete) Cuckolded.

##### Usage notes

This is used in heraldry to specify the color of horns that are distinct in color from the body.

##### Synonyms

* cornigerous

##### Derived terms

* African horned cucumber (Cucumis metuliferus)
* Alexander horned ball
* Alexander horned sphere
* greater one-horned rhinoceros
* great horned owl
* hickory horned devil
* horned adder (Bitis spp.)
* horned dace (Semotilus atromaculatus)
* horned desert viper (Cerastes cerastes)
* horned frog
* horned gopher (†Ceratogaulus spp.)
* horned grebe (Podiceps auritus)
* horned helmet (Cassis cornuta)
* horned hog (Babyrousa)
* horned horse (Connochaetes spp.)
* horned lark (Eremophila alpestris)
* horned lizard (Phrynosoma spp.)
* horned melon (Cucumis metuliferus)
* horned owl (Bubo)
* horned pansy
* horned pie (Bucerotidae)
* horned poison
* horned poppy (Glaucium)
* horned pout (Ameiurus nebulosus)
* horned puffin (Fratercula corniculata)
* horned rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes)
* horned screamer (Anhima cornuta)
* horned snake (Cerastes cornutus)
* horned sphere
* horned sungem
* horned syllogism
* horned toad
* horned up
* horned violet
* horned viper (Cerastes cornutus)
* long-horned beetle
* long-horned grasshopper
* ornate horned toad
* regal horned lizard
* Saharan horned viper (Cerastes cerastes)
* scimitar-horned oryx
* short-horned grasshopper
* slender-horned gazelle
* strange-horned toad
* three-horned
* well horned
* well-horned

##### See also

* horny
* cuckold

#### References

* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “horned”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “horned”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Etymology 2

See horn (verb).

#### Verb

horned
* simple past and past participle of horn

### Anagrams

* -hedron, Dohner, Horden, Rhoden, dehorn

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* hornyd
* (rare) orned, hornd

### Etymology

From horn +‎ -ed.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɔrnid/, /ˈhɔrnɛd/
* (rare) IPA: /ˈhɔrnd/

### Adjective

horned
* Possessing horns or a similar projection; horned or horn-bearing.
* (rare) Having headwear and hair done with projections like horns.
* (rare, of the moon) In its crescent phase; waxing or waning.
* (rare) Hornen; crafted or manufactured from horn.

#### Descendants

* English: horned
* Scots: hornit, hornt
* ⇒ Yola: hoornta, hornta

#### References

* “horned, adj. & ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-08.