Napoleon wears a bicorn hat. Pirates wear tricorns. Dunces wear unicorns.
The word Unicorn is uni-corn, as in one corn(horn). That means we could also use bicorn, tricorn, etc.
Submitted 10 months ago by someguy3@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Dieterlan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
teft@startrek.website 10 months ago
Wait until you hear about bicycles.
mp3@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
To be it sounds more like unique-horn.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 10 months ago
this is the answer
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Wait until you find out the depth of creativity contained in the naming of the “rhinoceros”.
someguy3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The word rhinoceros is derived through Latin from the Ancient Greek: ῥῑνόκερως, which is composed of ῥῑνο- (rhino-, “nose”) and κέρας (keras, “horn”) with a horn on the nose. The name has been in use since the 14th century.[8]
Little harder than uni and corn but still good
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To be fair, it’s a little easier if you’re in the medical field, because rhino- is actually used as a medical prefix
An ear, nose, throat doctor’s full title is actually Otorhinolaryngology
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Means you can make up your own animals with horns in silly places and in arbitrary numbering:
Tesseracephaceros, for example. I’m no etymologist but I think he’s got four horns on his head.
Oneser@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And hippopotamus!
NickKnight@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“It was a Unicorn in the same way nanny Ogg was a Unident.”
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
unicorn (n.) early 13c., from Old French unicorne, from Late Latin unicornus (Vulgate), from noun use of Latin unicornis (adj.) “having one horn,” from uni- “one” (from PIE root *oi-no- “one, unique”) + cornus “horn” (from PIE root *ker- (1) “horn; head”).
The Late Latin word translates Greek monoceros, itself rendering Hebrew re’em (Deuteronomy xxxiii.17 and elsewhere), which probably was a kind of wild ox. According to Pliny, a creature with a horse’s body, deer’s head, elephant’s feet, lion’s tail, and one black horn two cubits long projecting from its forehead. Compare German Einhorn, Welsh ungorn, Breton uncorn, Old Church Slavonic ino-rogu. Old English used anhorn as a loan-translation of Latin unicornis.
also from early 13c.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
According to Pliny, a creature with a horse’s body, deer’s head, elephant’s feet, lion’s tail, and one black horn two cubits long projecting from its forehead
That’s a pretty good description of Elasmotherium.
Pliny should have missed the last Elasmotherium by like 100,000 years, though, give or take a few years.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 10 months ago
Triceratops
Tricornjustlookingfordragon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Triceratops already means “Three-Horned Face” =P It’s just Greek instead of Latin.
Mango@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A eunuch horn is impossible to catch!
Venat0r@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Isn’t that just a regular horse?
Mango@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s the penis of a guy with no penis.
xoggy@programming.dev 10 months ago
The butterfly from The Last Unicorn told us this.
someguy3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is that why I’m getting downvoted? Tough crowd.
xoggy@programming.dev 10 months ago
The post is in the positives so I think you’re ok. If I had to guess on the downvotes though it’s not really a groundbreaking discovery that uni-corn can be broken into two words like that.
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And the pentacorn spoke thus:
whaleross@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Guess I am uncorn
Traegert@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Butt Stallion from Borderlands was a bicorn in fact, not a unicorn
Maddie@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Bicorniclops:
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