Other forms: unicorns
A unicorn is a magical horse with one horn on its head; it exists only in stories. A white unicorn, the unicorn's horn, unicorns and dragons.
Narwhal tusks were sold as unicorn horn for centuries and made fortunes. It is the national animal of Scotland. In business a unicorn is a private company worth over a billion dollars, named for how rare they were meant to be. The Latin means one horn.
1noununicornA legendary horse with a single horn.
“In the story, the princess rode a white unicorn with a golden horn.”
2nounprivateA private company worth over a billion dollars.
“The start-up became a unicorn just three years after it was founded.”
unicorn is a legendary creature.
Latin unicornis means one-horned, from unus, one, plus cornu, a horn. It translates the Greek monokeros.
Latin
ūnicornis
Old French
unicorne
Anglo-Norman
unicorne
Middle English
unicorne
English, today
unicorn
From Middle English unicorne, unikorn, from Anglo-Norman unicorne, Old French unicorne, and their source, Latin ūnicornis, (from ūnus + cornū), a Ancient Greek μονόκερως (“having one horn”). Displaced native ānhorn, itself a calque of the Latin term. early 13th c.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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