Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tauricornous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tau-ri-cornous
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having horns like those of a bull.

Example Sentences

"And if (as Macrobius and very good authors concede) Bacchus, (who is also described with horns,) be the same deity with the sun; and if (as Vossius well contendeth) Moses and Bacchus were the same person; their descriptions must be relative, or the tauricornous picture of the one, perhaps the same with the other."
"It is a pity Tubbs was not an Egyptologist enamoured of the kings or even an enlightened collector, for he had an uncanny gift and could not walk two feet without kicking up an outsize alabaster thumb, a tauricornous amulet, a gold needle, an unnameable something-or-other black with tar […]."

Etymology

From taur(us) (“bull”) + -i- + Latin corn(u) (“horn”) + -ous.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: -ous

Questions

What does tauricornous mean?: Having horns like those of a bull.
Where does tauricornous come from?: From taur(us) (“bull”) + -i- + Latin corn(u) (“horn”) + -ous.

How to pronounce tauricornous

Open the pronunciation page — Open the Speakur entry for “tauricornous”.
Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling () so you know which sounds to aim for.
Play the audio — Click Play to hear reference audio for “tauricornous”.
Repeat and practice — Say “tauricornous” aloud, matching stress and vowels until it feels natural.