cornuto means A cuckold. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “cornuto” is a great word
CORNUTO — [Noun] A man whose wife is unfaithful; a cuckold. From Italian cornuto, from Latin cornūtus ("horned"). First known use in English circa 1598. Unlike the general English "cuckold" or the arch "wittol" (which denotes a complacent participant), cornuto is the direct, accusatory import, freighted with the visceral, ancient metaphor of the horns. It is the crude gesture of a raised index and pinkie, the phantom weight of antlers upon a man's brow, and the anonymous graffiti scrawled on a rival's door—a word that sculpts private failure into a public, grotesque emblem, a stigma so old it has petrified into vocabulary.
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- A cuckold.“No, Master Brook, but the peaking cornuto / her husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual / 'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our / encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested, / and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy”