Meaning of cornupeta | Babel Free

Definitions

1. goring; attacking with horns
   Late-Latin, declension-1, one-termination
2. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   feminine, form-of, nominative, singular, vocative
3. ablative feminine singular of cornupetus
   ablative, feminine, form-of, singular
4. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
   accusative, form-of, neuter, nominative, plural, vocative

Examples

“Quod si bos cornupeta fuerit ab heri et nudiustertius, et contestati sunt dominum eius, nec recluserit eum, occideritque virum aut mulierem : et bos lapidibus obruetur, et dominum eius occident.”

But if the bovine has previously been attacking with its horns, and its owner has been called to witness, and has not kept it confined, and it has killed a man or a woman: the bovine shall be stoned and its owner shall be killed.

“Sin autem sciebat quod bos cornupeta esset ab heri et nudiustertius, et non custodivit eum dominus suus : reddet bovem pro bove, et cadaver integrum accipiet.”

But if he knew the bovine was attacking with its horns previously, and its owner did not guard it: he shall pay back a bovine for a bovine, and receive the whole carcass.

“Cornu, more Hebraeo, significat vel regnum, quòd Reges balsamo e cornu sumpto ungebantur: vel vires et potentiam, quòd animalia cornupeta grassentur cornibus suis, tanquàm armis.”

Horn, according to Hebrew usage, signifies either kingship, because kings were anointed with balm from a horn: or strength and power, because goring animals attack with their horns, like weapons.

“Bovis nomine quodcumque animal cornupeta vel calcitrosum synecdochicè intelligitur”

Under the name of bovine, any goring or kicking animal is understood by synecdoche

“Enallage, i.e. cornua: more animalium cornupetarum.”

“Contere brachium peccatoris, et maligni: unde ficut in alio psalmo eorundem fortitudinem sub cornuum nomine designat, quia in cornibus animalia cornupeta maximum robur habent, et tamen se ea contriturum asserit; et omnia cornua peccatorum confringam: ità modò, quia hominum brachia virium funt instrumenta, quibus innumera scelera patrare solent, à Divina providentia tandem conterenda esse prophetat Regius Vates.”

CEFR level