English

Alternative forms

• cothurn

Noun

cothurnus ‎(plural cothurni)

1. A buskin used in ancient tragedy
2. The stilted style denoting ancient tragedy
   • 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 410

     Madame Grandoni had insisted on the fact that she was an actress, and this little speech seemed a glimpse of the cothurnus.

Derived terms

• cothurnal

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈtʰur.nus/, [kɔˈtʰʊr.nʊs]

Noun

cothurnus m ‎(genitive cothurnī); second declension

1. cothurnus
2. tragedy (dramatic or poetic style)

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Russian: коту́рн ‎(kotúrn)

References

• cothurnus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cothurnus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• COTHURNUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cothurnus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• cothurnus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cothurnus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin