cornucopia

From Latin cornūcōpia (“mythical horn of plenty”), from cornū (“horn”) + cōpia (“abundance”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔː.nəˈkəʊ.pi.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔːɹ.nəˈkoʊ.pi.ə/, /ˌkɔːɹ.njəˈkoʊ.pi.ə/

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cornucopia (countable and uncountable, plural cornucopias)

1. (Greek mythology) A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain; or full of whatever its owner wanted: or, an image of a such a horn, either in two or three dimensions.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 59:

     It soon came: as they were on their way to a transparency of their majesties, not a little larger than life—with Bellona, in a very handsome helmet, on one side, and Peace, with a cornucopia and a full blown wreath of roses, on the other—the path was interrupted by a little knot of gentlemen.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 105:

     There are other mysteries expressed by the bison horn, the Paleolithic original of which the classical cornucopia is a copy: the horn of plenty is the universal vulva from which emerge all the creatures of life, plants, animals, and humans.

2. A hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things.
3. An abundance or plentiful supply.

   The store provided a veritable cornucopia of modern gadgets.

   • 2020 April 21, Marina Harss, “Twist, Bend, Reach, Step: A Merce Cunningham Solo Anyone Can Try”, in The New York Times‎:

     These days, thanks to the cornucopia of online dance classes and tutorials, you can almost imagine yourself to be a dancer.

   • Despite its sparse syntax, the expressiveness and flexibility of the λ-calculus make it a cornucopia of logic and mathematics. The Lambda Calculus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• horn of plenty
• See also Thesaurus:cornucopia

• copious

• IPA^(key): /kor.nuˈkɔ.pja/
• Rhymes: -ɔpja
• Hyphenation: cor‧nu‧cò‧pia

cornucopia f (plural cornucopie)

1. cornucopia

• rioccupano

From cornū (“horn”) + cōpia (“abundance”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kor.nuːˈkoː.pi.a/, [kɔrnuːˈkoːpiä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kor.nuˈko.pi.a/, [kornuˈkɔːpiä]

cornūcōpia f (genitive cornūcōpiae); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain; or full of whatever its owner wanted: or, an image of a such a horn, either in two or three dimensions.

First-declension noun.

• cornucopia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

• IPA^(key): /koɾnuˈkopja/ [koɾ.nuˈko.pja]
• Rhymes: -opja
• Syllabification: cor‧nu‧co‧pia

cornucopia f (plural cornucopias)

1. cornucopia

• “cornucopia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014