cornet

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cornet1 /ˈkɔːnɪt/

▶noun

• 1 a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but shorter and wider.

• 2 Brit. a cone-shaped wafer for holding ice cream.

– derivatives
cornetist /kɔːˈnɛtɪst/ (also cornettist) noun.

– origin ME (orig. denoting a wind instrument made of a horn): from OFr., dimin. of a var. of L. cornu ‘horn’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cornet2 /ˈkɔːnɪt/

▶noun (formerly) the fifth grade of commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours.

■ (in some British cavalry regiments) an officer of the rank of second lieutenant.

– derivatives
cornetcy noun (pl. cornetcies).

– origin C16 (earlier denoting the pennant of a cavalry troop): from Fr. cornette, dimin. of corne (orig. a collective term), based on L. cornua ‘horns’.