corner

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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːnə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹnɚ/
• Hyphenation: cor‧ner
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn.

Noun

corner (plural corners)

1. The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
   1. The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
   2. The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.

   3. An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.

   4. (Maine) The neighborhood surrounding an intersection of rural roads.
   5. (attributive) Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets.

2. An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
3. A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.

4. An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
5. (business, finance) A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
   1. (figuratively) Complete control or ownership of something.
6. (heading) Relating to the playing field.
   1. (baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.

   2. (baseball) First base or third base.

   3. (soccer) A corner kick.
   4. (American football) A cornerback.
   5. (boxing) The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.
   6. (boxing, by extension) The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.
7. A place where people meet for a particular purpose.

8. (obsolete) A point scored in a rubber at whist.

Quotations

• 2006, Kelly K. Chappell, Effects of Concept-based Instruction on Calculus Students’ Acquisition of Conceptual Understanding and Procedural Skill, in John Dossey, Solomon Friedberg, Glenda Lappan, W. James Lewis (editorial committee), Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education VI, page 41,

  Of the students enrolled in a traditional learning environment, 65% (42 of 65) correctly answered that the function ${displaystyle f(x)=|x-3|+4}$ was not differentiable (or had no derivative) at ${displaystyle x=3}$.Of those, 55% (23 of 42) argued that a function did not have a derivative at a corner.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• → German: Corner
• → Japanese: コーナー (kōnā)

Translations

Verb

corner (third-person singular simple present corners, present participle cornering, simple past and past participle cornered)

1. (transitive) To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.
2. (transitive) To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.

3. (transitive) To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
4. (finance, business, transitive) To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.

5. (automotive, transitive) To turn a corner or drive around a curve.

6. (automotive, intransitive) To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.

7. (transitive) To supply with corners.

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

corner

1. Spoken by service staff such as waiters when walking around a corner, to warn other staff and prevent a collision.

Etymology 2

From corn +‎ -er.

Noun

corner (plural corners)

1. One who corns, or preserves food in salt.

Anagrams

• Cerron

Catalan

Etymology

From corn +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kurˈne]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [korˈne]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [koɾˈneɾ]

Noun

corner m (plural corners)

1. snowy mespilus (Amelanchier ovalis)

   Synonyms: corrinyoler, pomerola

Related terms

• corneller

Further reading

• “corner”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English corner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔr.nər/
• Hyphenation: cor‧ner

Noun

corner m (plural corners, diminutive cornertje n)

1. (soccer) corner

Derived terms

• strafcorner

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English corner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.nœʁ/, /kɔʁ.nɛʁ/

Noun

corner m (plural corners)

1. (soccer) corner kick, corner

   Synonym: coup de pied de coin

Etymology 2

From corne +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.ne/

Verb

corner

1. to fold a corner of a page
2. to blow, horn (a cornet or horn)
3. to bellow
4. to honk, beep (a vehicle's horn)
5. to shout from the rooftops

Conjugation

Further reading

• “corner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English corner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔr.ner/
• Rhymes: -ɔrner
• Hyphenation: còr‧ner

Noun

corner m

1. (soccer) corner
2. (figurative) difficult situation
3. (economics) market niche in which a company has a monopoly

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cornel, cornelle, cornare, cornere, cornyere, korner

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman corner, cornere (and its dissimilatory variant cornel), from corne (“horn”); compare Medieval Latin cornārius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔrˈneːr/, /ˈkɔrnər/

Noun

corner (plural corneres)

1. A corner or angle; a terminal intersection of two objects.
2. The inside of a corner; the space inside a corner.
3. A refuge or redoubt; a location of safety.
4. A place or locale, especially a distant one.
5. (rare) An overlook or viewpoint.
6. (rare) The side of a troop or host.

Derived terms

• cornered
• corner ston

Descendants

• English: corner
• Scots: corner
• Yola: curneale, kurneal
• → Irish: coirnéal
• → Welsh: cornel

References

• “cornẹ̄̆r, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-08.
• “cornēl, -elle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Verb

corner

1. to blow; to horn (sound a horn)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-rns, *-rnt are modified to rz, rt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English corner or French corner.

Noun

corner n (plural cornere)

1. (soccer) corner kick, corner

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾneɾ/ [ˈkoɾ.neɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾneɾ
• Syllabification: cor‧ner

Noun

corner m (plural corneres)

1. corner kick