Napoleon wears a bicorn hat. Pirates wear tricorns. Dunces wear unicorns.
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
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Wait until you hear about bicycles.
Is that like a unicycle but with two wheels?
They're for bisexuals
You made me spit out my tea
To me it sounds more like unique-horn.
~~Triceratops~~
Tricorn
Triceratops already means "Three-Horned Face" =P It's just Greek instead of Latin.
unicorn (n.) early 13c., from Old French unicorne, from Late Latin unicornus (Vulgate), from noun use of Latin unicornis (adj.) "having one horn," from uni- "one" (from PIE root *oi-no- "one, unique") + cornus "horn" (from PIE root *ker- (1) "horn; head").
The Late Latin word translates Greek monoceros, itself rendering Hebrew re'em (Deuteronomy xxxiii.17 and elsewhere), which probably was a kind of wild ox. According to Pliny, a creature with a horse's body, deer's head, elephant's feet, lion's tail, and one black horn two cubits long projecting from its forehead. Compare German Einhorn, Welsh ungorn, Breton uncorn, Old Church Slavonic ino-rogu. Old English used anhorn as a loan-translation of Latin unicornis.
also from early 13c.
According to Pliny, a creature with a horse's body, deer's head, elephant's feet, lion's tail, and one black horn two cubits long projecting from its forehead
That’s a pretty good description of Elasmotherium.
Pliny should have missed the last Elasmotherium by like 100,000 years, though, give or take a few years.
"It was a Unicorn in the same way nanny Ogg was a Unident."
The butterfly from The Last Unicorn told us this.
Is that why I'm getting downvoted? Tough crowd.
The post is in the positives so I think you're ok. If I had to guess on the downvotes though it's not really a groundbreaking discovery that uni-corn can be broken into two words like that.
28 up 18 down so far!
I always took unicorn as one word, I never thought about the uni part meaning one.
And the pentacorn spoke thus:
A eunuch horn is impossible to catch!
Isn't that just a regular horse?
That's the penis of a guy with no penis.
Guess I am uncorn
Butt Stallion from Borderlands was a bicorn in fact, not a unicorn