Example sentences for: cornuta

How can you use “cornuta” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • St. Jerome, translating from the Hebrew and referring to the Greek, while preparing the (Latin) Vulgate, evidently mistranslated the Hebrew qaran to shine, for qeren horn and went on record with cornuta , horned: Quod cornuta esset facies sua . Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable calls the translation “a blunder,” explaining that “the Hebrew for this shining may be translated either as `sent forth beams' or as `sent forth horns.


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