PREFERRED TERM
Cornucopia
DEFINITION
- n. From the late Latin form, previously "cornū cōpiae" meaning horn of plenty. It refers to the representation of a goat's horn represented in art as overflowing with flowers, fruit, and corn, which signifies the horn of plenty.
BROADER CONCEPT
- Motif
- wd:Q332682 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
BELONGS TO GROUP
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Corne d'abondance
French
Cornucopia
Italian
Cornucopia
Spanish
URI
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